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.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFTI am president now, and tired of being kicked around.
More William Howard Taft Quotes
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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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The true Mason is ever vigilant for subtle traces of character and personality flaws which daily experience brings out.
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The laboring man and the trade-unionist, if I understand him, asks only equality before the law. Class legislation and unequal privilege, though expressly in his favor, will in the end work no benefit to him or to society.
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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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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 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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Repeat mantra: Donuts are not vitamins, donuts are not.
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The true Mason never hesitates to use the working tools to correct personal flaws.
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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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If they will play fair I will play fair, but if they won’t then I reserve all my rights to do anything I find myself able to do.
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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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The game of baseball is a clean, straight game.
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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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Politics make me sick.
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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 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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We passed the Children’s Bureau bill calculated to prevent children from being employed too early in factories.
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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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The truth is that in my present life I don’t remember that I ever was president.
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Anti-Semitism is a noxious weed that should be cut out. It has no place in America.
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That all may be so, but when I begin to exercise that power I am not conscious of the power, but only of the limitations imposed on me.
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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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A man never knows exactly how the child of his brain will strike other people.
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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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We are all imperfect. We can not expect perfect government.
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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.
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