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William Howard Taft80 quotes“The world is not going to be saved by legislation.”
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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 TaftWilliam Howard Taft Next to the right of liberty, the right of property is the most important individual right guaranteed by the Constitution . .
William Howard TaftWilliam Howard Taft I don’t know whither we are drifting, but I do know where every real thinking patriot will stand in the end, and that’s by the Constitution.
William Howard TaftWilliam Howard Taft The game of baseball is a clean, straight game, and it summons to its presence everybody who enjoys clean, straight athletics. It furnishes amusement to the thousands and thousands.
William Howard TaftWilliam Howard Taft The precepts of the Gospel were universally the obligations of Masonry.
William Howard TaftWilliam Howard Taft No tendency is quite so strong in human nature as the desire to lay down rules of conduct for other people.
William Howard TaftWilliam Howard Taft One cannot always be sure of the truth of what one hears if he happens to be President of the United States.
William Howard TaftWilliam Howard Taft The policy of dollar diplomacy is one that appeals alike to idealistic humanitarian sentiments, to dictates of sound policy, and strategy, and to legitimate commercial aims.
William Howard TaftWilliam Howard Taft I do not know much about politics, but I am trying to do the best I can with this administration until the time shall come for me to turn it over to somebody else.
William Howard TaftWilliam Howard Taft 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.
William Howard TaftWilliam Howard Taft The truth is that in my present life I don’t remember that I ever was president.
William Howard TaftWilliam Howard Taft 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.
William Howard TaftWilliam Howard Taft We are all dependent upon the investment of capital.
William Howard TaftWilliam Howard Taft A government is for the benefit of all the people.
William Howard TaftWilliam Howard Taft The true Mason takes full responsibility for the condition of his character and ever strives for its perfection.
William Howard TaftWilliam Howard Taft Politics, when I am in it, makes me sick.
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