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.
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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Action for which I become responsible, or for which my administration becomes responsible, shall be within the law.
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Repeat mantra: Donuts are not vitamins, donuts are not.
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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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My impression about the Panama Canal is that the great revolution it is going to introduce in the trade of the world is in the trade between the east and the west coast of the United States.
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Enthusiasm for a cause sometimes warps judgment.
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We are all imperfect. We can not expect perfect government.
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The President cannot make clouds to rain and cannot make the corn to grow. He cannot make business good, although when these things occur, political parties do claim some credit for the good things that have happened in this way
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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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The diplomacy of the present administration has sought to respond to the modern idea of commercial intercourse. This policy has been characterized as substituting dollars for bullets.
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I think his greatest fault is his failure to accord credit to anyone for what he may have done. This is a great weakness in any man.
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Politics, when I am in it, makes me sick.
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A government is for the benefit of all the people.
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I know how irritating it is to have somebody else lay down rules for your moral uplift, but you’ve got to stand a great deal in order to make progress.
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We are imperfect. We cannot expect perfect government.
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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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