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.
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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Well, I have one consolation. No candidate was ever elected ex-president by such a large majority!
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Enthusiasm for a cause sometimes warps judgment.
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I am in favor of helping the prosperity of all countries because, when we are all prosperous, the trade with each becomes more valuable to the other.
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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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Next to the right of liberty, the right of property is the most important individual right guaranteed by the Constitution . .
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The true Mason is ever vigilant for subtle traces of character and personality flaws which daily experience brings out.
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Substantial progress toward better things can rarely be taken without developing new evils requiring new remedies.
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The cheerful loser is a sort of winner.
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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 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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I am president now, and tired of being kicked around.
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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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We passed the Children’s Bureau bill calculated to prevent children from being employed too early in factories.
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The world is not going to be saved by legislation.
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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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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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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.
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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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Too many people don’t care what happens so long as it doesn’t happen to them.
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We are all imperfect. We can not expect perfect government.
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No, the only things which do not bother me are the elements. I can overcome them without a fight. All one has to do to get the best of the elements is to stand pat and one will win.
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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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Politics, when I am in it, makes me sick.
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The true Mason always carries his working tools everywhere.
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The trouble with me is that I like to talk too much.
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I am glad to be going. This is the lonesomest pace in the world?
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