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.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFTThe truth is that in my present life I don’t remember that I ever was president.
More William Howard Taft Quotes
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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.
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We, as Unitarians, may feel that the world is coming our way.
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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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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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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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If this humor be the safety of our race, then it is due largely to the infusion into the American people of the Irish brain.
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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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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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Well, I have one consolation. No candidate was ever elected ex-president by such a large majority!
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I am president now, and tired of being kicked around.
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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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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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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 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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A man never knows exactly how the child of his brain will strike other people.
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