We are all dependent upon the investment of capital.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFTMy 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.
More William Howard Taft Quotes
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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 don’t know whither we are drifting, but I do know where every real thinking patriot will stand in the end, and that’s by the Constitution.
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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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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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The truth is that in my present life I don’t remember that I ever was president.
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We are imperfect. We cannot expect perfect government.
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Enthusiasm for a cause sometimes warps judgment.
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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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In the public interest, therefore, it is better that we lose the services of the exceptions who are good Judges after they are seventy and avoid the presence on the Bench of men who are not able to keep up with the work, or to perform it satisfactorily.
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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, as Unitarians, may feel that the world is coming our way.
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Repeat mantra: Donuts are not vitamins, donuts are not.
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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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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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The cheerful loser is a sort of winner.
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