We have a government of limited power under the Constitution, and we have got to work out our problems on the basis of law.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFTI don’t know whither we are drifting, but I do know where every real thinking patriot will stand in the end, and that’s by the Constitution.
More William Howard Taft Quotes
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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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Don’t write so that you can be understood, write so that you can’t be misunderstood.
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We are all imperfect. We can not expect perfect government.
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Politics, when I am in it, makes me sick.
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We are imperfect. We cannot expect perfect government.
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The cheerful loser is a sort of winner.
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Presidents come and go, but the Supreme Court goes on forever.
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The truth is that in my present life I don’t remember that I ever was president.
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In the public interest, therefore, it is better that we lose the services of the exceptions who are good Judges after they are seventy and avoid the presence on the Bench of men who are not able to keep up with the work, or to perform it satisfactorily.
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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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The game of baseball is a clean, straight game.
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The world is not going to be saved by legislation.
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Golf in the interest of good health and good manners. It promotes self-restraint and affords a chance to play the man and act the gentleman.
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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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The true Mason always carries his working tools everywhere.
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