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 TAFTWhat 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.
More William Howard Taft Quotes
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A government is for the benefit of all the people.
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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.
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There are a great many people who are in favor of conservation no matter what it means.
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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.
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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 cheerful loser is a sort of winner.
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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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I am president now, and tired of being kicked around.
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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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We can’t have a decent government unless those in power exercise self restraint.
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We are all dependent upon the investment of capital.
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A man never knows exactly how the child of his brain will strike 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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I don’t know the man I admire more than [Charles Evans] Hughes. If ever I have the chance I shall offer him the Chief Justiceship.
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Repeat mantra: Donuts are not vitamins, donuts are not.
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