I don’t know the man I admire more than [Charles Evans] Hughes. If ever I have the chance I shall offer him the Chief Justiceship.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFTAnyone who has taken the oath I have just taken must feel a heavy weight of responsibility. If not, he has no conception of the powers and duties of the office.
More William Howard Taft Quotes
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We are imperfect. We cannot expect perfect government.
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We can’t have a decent government unless those in power exercise self restraint.
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Presidents come and go, but the Supreme Court goes on forever.
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Don’t write so that you can be understood, write so that you can’t be misunderstood.
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In the public interest, therefore, it is better that we lose the services of the exceptions who are good Judges after they are seventy and avoid the presence on the Bench of men who are not able to keep up with the work, or to perform it satisfactorily.
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Too many people don’t care what happens so long as it doesn’t happen to them.
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If this humor be the safety of our race, then it is due largely to the infusion into the American people of the Irish brain.
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The game of baseball is a clean, straight game.
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A government is for the benefit of all the people.
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Golf in the interest of good health and good manners. It promotes self-restraint and affords a chance to play the man and act the gentleman.
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We are all dependent upon the investment of capital.
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The true Mason ever strives to cultivate Masonry in his/her life to the fullest degree possible.
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Anti-Semitism is a noxious weed that should be cut out. It has no place in America.
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I do not believe in the divinity of Christ, and there are many other of the postulates of the orthodox creed to which I cannot subscribe.
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The true Mason takes full responsibility for the condition of his character and ever strives for its perfection.
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