The world is not going to be saved by legislation.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFTA system in which we may have an enforced rest from legislation for two years is not bad.
More William Howard Taft Quotes
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I am afraid I am a constant disappointment to my party. The fact of the matter is, the longer I am President the less of a party man I seem to become.
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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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The Masonic system represents a stupendous and beautiful fabric, founded on universal purity, to rule and direct our passions, to have faith and love in God, and charity toward man.
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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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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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Well, I have one consolation. No candidate was ever elected ex-president by such a large majority!
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I do not believe in the divinity of Christ, and there are many other of the postulates of the orthodox creed to which I cannot subscribe.
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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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Too many people don’t care what happens so long as it doesn’t happen to them.
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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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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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The game of baseball is a clean, straight game, and it summons to its presence everybody who enjoys clean, straight athletics. It furnishes amusement to the thousands and thousands.
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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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I am president now, and tired of being kicked around.
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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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