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.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFTThe true Mason takes full responsibility for the condition of his character and ever strives for its perfection.
More William Howard Taft Quotes
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I have come to the conclusion that the major part of the president is to increase the gate receipts of expositions and fairs and bring tourists to town.
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Enthusiasm for a cause sometimes warps judgment.
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The President cannot make clouds to rain and cannot make the corn to grow. He cannot make business good, although when these things occur, political parties do claim some credit for the good things that have happened in this way
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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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As the Republican platforms says, the welfare of the farmer is vital to that of the whole country.
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A system in which we may have an enforced rest from legislation for two years is not bad.
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The Masonic system represents a stupendous and beautiful fabric, founded on universal purity, to rule and direct our passions, to have faith and love in God, and charity toward man.
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Don’t worry over what the newspapers say. I don’t. Why should anyone else? I told the truth to the newspaper correspondents – but when you tell the truth to them they are at sea.
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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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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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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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I am glad to be going. This is the lonesomest pace in the world?
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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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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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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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