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I am president now, and tired of being kicked around.

William Howard Taft

Next to the right of liberty, the right of property is the most important individual right guaranteed by the Constitution . .
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT

Constitution Gurantee Liberty Property Right
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.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT

Greatness Irritation Moral Myself Order Rule Stand
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.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT

Country Favor Help Myself Prosperity Value
I think I might as well give up being a candidate. There are so many people in the country who don’t like me.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT

Candidate Country Myself People Thinking
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 TAFT

Constitution Drift End Reality Stand Thinking
We, as Unitarians, may feel that the world is coming our way.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT

Feeling Ourselves Way World
The intoxication of power rapidly sobers off in the knowledge of its restrictions and under the prompt reminder of an ever-present and not always considerate press, as well as the kindly suggestions that not infrequently come from Congress.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT

Kind Knowledge Power Reminder Suggestion
We have a government of limited power under the Constitution, and we have got to work out our problems on the basis of law.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT

Basis Constitution Government Law Limitation
We must dare to be great; and we must realize that greatness is the fruit of toil and sacrifice and high courage.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT

Courage Dare Greatness High Realization Sacrifice
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.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT

Basis Effort Enterprise Human Labor Propose Social Substitution
The true Mason ever strives to cultivate Masonry in his/her life to the fullest degree possible.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT

Cultivation Degree Herself Life Possible Strive
The cheerful loser is a sort of winner.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT

Cheerful Lost Win
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.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT

Feeling heavy Office Power Promise Responsibility
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 TAFT

Greatness Impression Introduction Revolution Trade
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.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT

Afraid Disappointment Man Myself Party
We are imperfect. We cannot expect perfect government.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT

Expectation Government Imperfection

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