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.
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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There is nothing so despicable as a secret society that is based upon religious prejudice and that will attempt to defeat a man because of his religious beliefs. Such a society is like a cockroach – it thrives in the dark. So do those who combine for such an end.
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In the public interest, therefore, it is better that we lose the services of the exceptions who are good Judges after they are seventy and avoid the presence on the Bench of men who are not able to keep up with the work, or to perform it satisfactorily.
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We are all dependent upon the investment of capital.
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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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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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Too many people don’t care what happens so long as it doesn’t happen to them.
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I am afraid I am a constant disappointment to my party. The fact of the matter is, the longer I am President the less of a party man I seem to become.
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I think I might as well give up being a candidate. There are so many people in the country who don’t like me.
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The game of baseball is a clean, straight game, and it summons to its presence everybody who enjoys clean, straight athletics. It furnishes amusement to the thousands and thousands.
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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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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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We live in a stage of politics, where legislators seem to regard the passage of laws as much more important than the results of their enforcement.
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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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Don’t write so that you can be understood, write so that you can’t be misunderstood.
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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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