The cheerful loser is a sort of winner.
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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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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Politics, when I am in it, makes me sick.
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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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The true Mason is ever vigilant for subtle traces of character and personality flaws which daily experience brings out.
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I do not know much about politics, but I am trying to do the best I can with this administration until the time shall come for me to turn it over to somebody else.
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I’ll be damned if I am not getting tired of this. It seems to be the profession of a President simply to hear other people talk.
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The true Mason never hesitates to use the working tools to correct personal flaws.
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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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Substantial progress toward better things can rarely be taken without developing new evils requiring new remedies.
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We shall have to begin all over again. [Taft hoped that] the Senators might change their minds, or that the people might change the Senate; instead of which they changed me.
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I have come to the conclusion that the major part of the president is to increase the gate receipts of expositions and fairs and bring tourists to town.
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A system in which we may have an enforced rest from legislation for two years is not bad.
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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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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 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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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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The true Mason always carries his working tools everywhere.
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We, as Unitarians, may feel that the world is coming our way.
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The game of baseball is a clean, straight game.
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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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We can’t have a decent government unless those in power exercise self restraint.
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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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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 are imperfect. We cannot expect perfect government.
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We are all imperfect. We can not expect perfect government.
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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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