The cheerful loser is a sort of winner.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFTI am president now, and tired of being kicked around.
More William Howard Taft Quotes
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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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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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We passed the Children’s Bureau bill calculated to prevent children from being employed too early in factories.
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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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The true Mason always carries his working tools everywhere.
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We have a government of limited power under the Constitution, and we have got to work out our problems on the basis of law.
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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 imperfect. We can not expect perfect government.
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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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Constitutions are checks upon the hasty action of the majority. They are the self-imposed restraints of a whole people upon a majority of them to secure sober action and a respect for the rights of the minority.
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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 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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Well, I have one consolation. No candidate was ever elected ex-president by such a large majority!
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One cannot always be sure of the truth of what one hears if he happens to be President of the United States.
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The true Mason does not hold or teach the attitude that, I am a Master Mason now and thus I no longer need to be concerned with using the working tools because they were given in the earlier degrees.
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