No, the only things which do not bother me are the elements. I can overcome them without a fight. All one has to do to get the best of the elements is to stand pat and one will win.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFTThe 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.
More William Howard Taft Quotes
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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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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 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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Too many people don’t care what happens so long as it doesn’t happen to them.
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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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We, as Unitarians, may feel that the world is coming our way.
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The precepts of the Gospel were universally the obligations of Masonry.
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We can’t have a decent government unless those in power exercise self restraint.
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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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What I am anxious to do is to secure my legislation…. What I want to do is to get through that, and if I can point to a record of usefulness of that kind, I am entirely willing to quit office.
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Politics make me sick.
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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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When the history of this period is written, [William Jennings] Bryan will stand out as one of the most remarkable men of his generation and one of the biggest political men of our country.
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The game of baseball is a clean, straight game.
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Repeat mantra: Donuts are not vitamins, donuts are not.
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