The true Mason takes full responsibility for the condition of his character and ever strives for its perfection.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFTWe passed the Children’s Bureau bill calculated to prevent children from being employed too early in factories.
More William Howard Taft Quotes
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I am in favor of helping the prosperity of all countries because, when we are all prosperous, the trade with each becomes more valuable to the other.
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Socialism proposes no adequate substitute for the motive of enlightened selfishness that today is at the basis of all human labor and effort, enterprise and new activity.
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I am president now, and tired of being kicked around.
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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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The President cannot make clouds to rain and cannot make the corn to grow. He cannot make business good, although when these things occur, political parties do claim some credit for the good things that have happened in this way
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Repeat mantra: Donuts are not vitamins, donuts are not.
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A system in which we may have an enforced rest from legislation for two years is not bad.
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What I am anxious to do is to secure my legislation…. What I want to do is to get through that, and if I can point to a record of usefulness of that kind, I am entirely willing to quit office.
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We are imperfect. We cannot expect perfect government.
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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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The true Mason ever strives to cultivate Masonry in his/her life to the fullest degree possible.
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I’ll be damned if I am not getting tired of this. It seems to be the profession of a President simply to hear other people talk.
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Politics, when I am in it, makes me sick.
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I love judges, and I love courts. They are my ideals, that typify on earth what we shall meet hereafter in heaven under a just God.
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That all may be so, but when I begin to exercise that power I am not conscious of the power, but only of the limitations imposed on me.
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