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.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFTWe must dare to be great; and we must realize that greatness is the fruit of toil and sacrifice and high courage.
More William Howard Taft Quotes
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I love judges, and I love courts. They are my ideals, that typify on earth what we shall meet hereafter in heaven under a just God.
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We are all dependent upon the investment of capital.
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Repeat mantra: Donuts are not vitamins, donuts are not.
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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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I am president now, and tired of being kicked around.
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Don’t write so that you can be understood, write so that you can’t be misunderstood.
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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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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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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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The true Mason ever strives to cultivate Masonry in his/her life to the fullest degree possible.
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There is not a subject in which I take a deeper interest than I do in the development of Alaska, and I propose, if Congress will follow by recommendations, to do something in that territory that will make it move on.
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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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Well, I have one consolation. No candidate was ever elected ex-president by such a large majority!
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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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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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