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 TAFTDon’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.
More William Howard Taft Quotes
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I think I might as well give up being a candidate. There are so many people in the country who don’t like me.
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No tendency is quite so strong in human nature as the desire to lay down rules of conduct for other people.
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If they will play fair I will play fair, but if they won’t then I reserve all my rights to do anything I find myself able to do.
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We are all dependent upon the investment of capital.
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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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Politics make me sick.
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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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The true Mason does not hold or teach the attitude that, I am a Master Mason now and thus I no longer need to be concerned with using the working tools because they were given in the earlier degrees.
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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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Next to the right of liberty, the right of property is the most important individual right guaranteed by the Constitution . .
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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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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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The cheerful loser is a sort of winner.
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There are a great many people who are in favor of conservation no matter what it means.
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We, as Unitarians, may feel that the world is coming our way.
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