We must dare to be great; and we must realize that greatness is the fruit of toil and sacrifice and high courage.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFTThe 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.
More William Howard Taft Quotes
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A system in which we may have an enforced rest from legislation for two years is not bad.
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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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I am president now, and tired of being kicked around.
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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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A government is for the benefit of all the people.
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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’s level of discernment increases with every use of the working tools, because the true Mason is ever working on him/her self.
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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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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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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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Too many people don’t care what happens so long as it doesn’t happen to them.
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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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