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.
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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Well, I have one consolation. No candidate was ever elected ex-president by such a large majority!
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I am president now, and tired of being kicked around.
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Don’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.
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The true Mason is ever vigilant for subtle traces of character and personality flaws which daily experience brings out.
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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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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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The game of baseball is a clean, straight game.
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Politics make me sick.
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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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Substantial progress toward better things can rarely be taken without developing new evils requiring new remedies.
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Repeat mantra: Donuts are not vitamins, donuts are not.
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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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The world is not going to be saved by legislation.
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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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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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