Enthusiasm for a cause sometimes warps judgment.
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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Well, I have one consolation. No candidate was ever elected ex-president by such a large majority!
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The world is not going to be saved by legislation.
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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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We, as Unitarians, may feel that the world is coming our way.
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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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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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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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The truth is that in my present life I don’t remember that I ever was president.
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Politics make me sick.
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Socialism proposes no adequate substitute for the motive of enlightened selfishness that today is at the basis of all human labor and effort, enterprise and new activity.
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Action for which I become responsible, or for which my administration becomes responsible, shall be within the law.
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Repeat mantra: Donuts are not vitamins, donuts are not.
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We can’t have a decent government unless those in power exercise self restraint.
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We are imperfect. We cannot expect perfect government.
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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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