A government is for the benefit of all the people.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFTThe precepts of the Gospel were universally the obligations of Masonry.
More William Howard Taft Quotes
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We, as Unitarians, may feel that the world is coming our way.
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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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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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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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I am president now, and tired of being kicked around.
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Anyone who has taken the oath I have just taken must feel a heavy weight of responsibility. If not, he has no conception of the powers and duties of the office.
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The game of baseball is a clean, straight game.
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We are all imperfect. We can not expect perfect government.
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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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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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Politics make me sick.
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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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We must dare to be great; and we must realize that greatness is the fruit of toil and sacrifice and high courage.
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The cheerful loser is a sort of winner.
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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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