Politics make me sick.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFTNo tendency is quite so strong in human nature as the desire to lay down rules of conduct for other people.
More William Howard Taft Quotes
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The trouble with me is that I like to talk too much.
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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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The true Mason does not hold or teach the attitude that, I am a Master Mason now and thus I no longer need to be concerned with using the working tools because they were given in the earlier degrees.
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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 love judges, and I love courts. They are my ideals, that typify on earth what we shall meet hereafter in heaven under a just God.
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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 game of baseball is a clean, straight game.
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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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We passed the Children’s Bureau bill calculated to prevent children from being employed too early in factories.
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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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There are a great many people who are in favor of conservation no matter what it means.
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I am glad to be going. This is the lonesomest pace in the world?
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The true Mason takes full responsibility for the condition of his character and ever strives for its perfection.
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Action for which I become responsible, or for which my administration becomes responsible, shall be within the law.
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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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