I’ll be damned if I am not getting tired of this. It seems to be the profession of a President simply to hear other people talk.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFTWell, I have one consolation. No candidate was ever elected ex-president by such a large majority!
More William Howard Taft Quotes
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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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We are all imperfect. We can not expect perfect government.
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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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We, as Unitarians, may feel that the world is coming our way.
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We shall have to begin all over again. [Taft hoped that] the Senators might change their minds, or that the people might change the Senate; instead of which they changed me.
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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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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.
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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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The cheerful loser is a sort of winner.
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Enthusiasm for a cause sometimes warps judgment.
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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 true Mason ever strives to cultivate Masonry in his/her life to the fullest degree possible.
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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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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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I know how irritating it is to have somebody else lay down rules for your moral uplift, but you’ve got to stand a great deal in order to make progress.
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