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We can’t have a decent government unless those in power exercise self restraint.

William Howard Taft

A system in which we may have an enforced rest from legislation for two years is not bad.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT

Bad Force Rest System Time
I have come to the conclusion that the major part of the president is to increase the gate receipts of expositions and fairs and bring tourists to town.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT

Job Myself President Tired Tourists
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.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT

Brain Humor People Race Safety
Anyone 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.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT

Feeling heavy Office Power Promise Responsibility
Substantial progress toward better things can rarely be taken without developing new evils requiring new remedies.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT

Better Development Progress Rare Remedy Requirement
Enthusiasm for a cause sometimes warps judgment.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT

Enthusiasm Judgement Reason
I think I might as well give up being a candidate. There are so many people in the country who don’t like me.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT

Candidate Country Myself People Thinking
The laboring man and the trade-unionist, if I understand him, asks only equality before the law. Class legislation and unequal privilege, though expressly in his favor, will in the end work no benefit to him or to society.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT

Equality Law Man Privilege Society Trade Understand
I am afraid I am a constant disappointment to my party. The fact of the matter is, the longer I am President the less of a party man I seem to become.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT

Afraid Disappointment Man Myself Party
A government is for the benefit of all the people.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT

Benefit Government People Welfare
The true Mason ever strives to cultivate Masonry in his/her life to the fullest degree possible.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT

Cultivation Degree Herself Life Possible Strive
Don’t worry over what the newspapers say. I don’t. Why should anyone else? I told the truth to the newspaper correspondents – but when you tell the truth to them they are at sea.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT

Newspaper Sea Truth Worry Yourself
My impression about the Panama Canal is that the great revolution it is going to introduce in the trade of the world is in the trade between the east and the west coast of the United States.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT

Greatness Impression Introduction Revolution Trade
The game of baseball is a clean, straight game.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT

Cleaning Game Sports
I think his greatest fault is his failure to accord credit to anyone for what he may have done. This is a great weakness in any man.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT

Greatness Man Mistake Thinking Weakness
Presidents come and go, but the Supreme Court goes on forever.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT

Court Forever President

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