I am afraid I am a constant disappointment to my party. The fact of the matter is, the longer I am President the less of a party man I seem to become.
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.
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The world is not going to be saved by legislation.
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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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The cheerful loser is a sort of winner.
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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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Politics, when I am in it, makes me sick.
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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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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 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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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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Too many people don’t care what happens so long as it doesn’t happen to them.
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Don’t write so that you can be understood, write so that you can’t be misunderstood.
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We, as Unitarians, may feel that the world is coming our way.
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The true Mason always carries his working tools everywhere.
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We are imperfect. We cannot expect perfect government.
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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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