If they will play fair I will play fair, but if they won’t then I reserve all my rights to do anything I find myself able to do.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFTNext to the right of liberty, the right of property is the most important individual right guaranteed by the Constitution . .
More William Howard Taft Quotes
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We are all imperfect. We can not expect perfect government.
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Don’t worry over what the newspapers say. I don’t. Why should anyone else? I told the truth to the newspaper correspondents – but when you tell the truth to them they are at sea.
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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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Politics make me sick.
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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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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.
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Anti-Semitism is a noxious weed that should be cut out. It has no place in America.
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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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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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The cheerful loser is a sort of winner.
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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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I am president now, and tired of being kicked around.
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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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Enthusiasm for a cause sometimes warps judgment.
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A man never knows exactly how the child of his brain will strike other people.
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