We are all imperfect. We can not expect perfect government.
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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Politics, when I am in it, makes me sick.
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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, as Unitarians, may feel that the world is coming our way.
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The world is not going to be saved by legislation.
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Politics make me sick.
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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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If they will play fair I will play fair, but if they won’t then I reserve all my rights to do anything I find myself able to do.
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I am glad to be going. This is the lonesomest pace in the world?
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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 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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We must dare to be great; and we must realize that greatness is the fruit of toil and sacrifice and high courage.
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Enthusiasm for a cause sometimes warps judgment.
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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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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 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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We passed the Children’s Bureau bill calculated to prevent children from being employed too early in factories.
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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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A man never knows exactly how the child of his brain will strike other people.
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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 know this, and I know it from actual experience in the Orient, that the progress of modern Christian civilization has largely depended on the earnest hard work of the Christian missions of every denomination.
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The diplomacy of the present administration has sought to respond to the modern idea of commercial intercourse. This policy has been characterized as substituting dollars for bullets.
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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 never hesitates to use the working tools to correct personal flaws.
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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 intoxication of power rapidly sobers off in the knowledge of its restrictions and under the prompt reminder of an ever-present and not always considerate press, as well as the kindly suggestions that not infrequently come from Congress.
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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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