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.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFTGolf 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.
More William Howard Taft Quotes
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Substantial progress toward better things can rarely be taken without developing new evils requiring new remedies.
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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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When the history of this period is written, [William Jennings] Bryan will stand out as one of the most remarkable men of his generation and one of the biggest political men of our country.
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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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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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The policy of dollar diplomacy is one that appeals alike to idealistic humanitarian sentiments, to dictates of sound policy, and strategy, and to legitimate commercial aims.
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I am president now, and tired of being kicked around.
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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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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.
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A government is for the benefit of all the people.
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Politics make me sick.
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We, as Unitarians, may feel that the world is coming our way.
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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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Enthusiasm for a cause sometimes warps judgment.
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The true Mason’s level of discernment increases with every use of the working tools, because the true Mason is ever working on him/her self.
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