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 TAFTThe true Mason always carries his working tools everywhere.
More William Howard Taft Quotes
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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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Repeat mantra: Donuts are not vitamins, donuts are not.
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We are all imperfect. We can not expect perfect government.
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Presidents come and go, but the Supreme Court goes on forever.
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We live in a stage of politics, where legislators seem to regard the passage of laws as much more important than the results of their enforcement.
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The trouble with me is that I like to talk too much.
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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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We, as Unitarians, may feel that the world is coming our way.
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I am president now, and tired of being kicked around.
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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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A man never knows exactly how the child of his brain will strike other people.
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The game of baseball is a clean, straight game.
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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.
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We have a government of limited power under the Constitution, and we have got to work out our problems on the basis of law.
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There is nothing so despicable as a secret society that is based upon religious prejudice and that will attempt to defeat a man because of his religious beliefs. Such a society is like a cockroach – it thrives in the dark. So do those who combine for such an end.
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