Anyone who has taken the oath I have just taken must feel a heavy weight of responsibility. If not, he has no conception of the powers and duties of the office.
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 man never knows exactly how the child of his brain will strike other people.
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The game of baseball is a clean, straight game.
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Repeat mantra: Donuts are not vitamins, donuts are not.
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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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I do not know much about politics, but I am trying to do the best I can with this administration until the time shall come for me to turn it over to somebody else.
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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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There are a great many people who are in favor of conservation no matter what it means.
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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 world is not going to be saved by legislation.
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We are imperfect. We cannot expect perfect government.
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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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I am glad to be going. This is the lonesomest pace in the world?
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The man with the average mentality, but with control, with a definite goal, and a clear conception of how it can be gained, and above all, with the power of application and labor, wins in the end.
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We have a government of limited power under the Constitution, and we have got to work out our problems on the basis of law.
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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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