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 TAFTThe 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.
More William Howard Taft Quotes
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The game of baseball is a clean, straight game.
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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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We can’t have a decent government unless those in power exercise self restraint.
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The true Mason is ever vigilant for subtle traces of character and personality flaws which daily experience brings out.
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The true Mason always carries his working tools everywhere.
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Presidents come and go, but the Supreme Court goes on forever.
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Repeat mantra: Donuts are not vitamins, donuts are not.
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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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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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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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If they will play fair I will play fair, but if they won’t then I reserve all my rights to do anything I find myself able to do.
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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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The man with the average mentality, but with control, with a definite goal, and a clear conception of how it can be gained, and above all, with the power of application and labor, wins in the end.
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