I am glad to be going. This is the lonesomest pace in the world?
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFTThere are a great many people who are in favor of conservation no matter what it means.
More William Howard Taft Quotes
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Repeat mantra: Donuts are not vitamins, donuts are not.
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The trouble with me is that I like to talk too much.
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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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The true Mason takes full responsibility for the condition of his character and ever strives for its perfection.
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I love judges, and I love courts. They are my ideals, that typify on earth what we shall meet hereafter in heaven under a just God.
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I don’t know the man I admire more than [Charles Evans] Hughes. If ever I have the chance I shall offer him the Chief Justiceship.
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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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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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Presidents come and go, but the Supreme Court goes on forever.
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We, as Unitarians, may feel that the world is coming our way.
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My impression about the Panama Canal is that the great revolution it is going to introduce in the trade of the world is in the trade between the east and the west coast of the United States.
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If this humor be the safety of our race, then it is due largely to the infusion into the American people of the Irish brain.
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The President cannot make clouds to rain and cannot make the corn to grow. He cannot make business good, although when these things occur, political parties do claim some credit for the good things that have happened in this way
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Action for which I become responsible, or for which my administration becomes responsible, shall be within the law.
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No, the only things which do not bother me are the elements. I can overcome them without a fight. All one has to do to get the best of the elements is to stand pat and one will win.
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