The world is not going to be saved by legislation.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFTSubstantial progress toward better things can rarely be taken without developing new evils requiring new remedies.
More William Howard Taft Quotes
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The cheerful loser is a sort of winner.
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Enthusiasm for a cause sometimes warps judgment.
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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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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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Politics, when I am in it, makes me sick.
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The game of baseball is a clean, straight game.
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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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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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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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Next to the right of liberty, the right of property is the most important individual right guaranteed by the Constitution . .
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The trouble with me is that I like to talk too much.
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We are imperfect. We cannot expect perfect government.
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I am president now, and tired of being kicked around.
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We are all dependent upon the investment of capital.
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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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