I am president now, and tired of being kicked around.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFTWe are imperfect. We cannot expect perfect government.
More William Howard Taft Quotes
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A man never knows exactly how the child of his brain will strike other people.
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I am glad to be going. This is the lonesomest pace in the world?
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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.
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We shall have to begin all over again. [Taft hoped that] the Senators might change their minds, or that the people might change the Senate; instead of which they changed me.
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One cannot always be sure of the truth of what one hears if he happens to be President of the United States.
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A government is for the benefit of all the people.
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Next to the right of liberty, the right of property is the most important individual right guaranteed by the Constitution . .
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Well, I have one consolation. No candidate was ever elected ex-president by such a large majority!
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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.
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We are all imperfect. We can not expect perfect government.
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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.
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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.
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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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The Masonic system represents a stupendous and beautiful fabric, founded on universal purity, to rule and direct our passions, to have faith and love in God, and charity toward man.
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Repeat mantra: Donuts are not vitamins, donuts are not.
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