Too many people don’t care what happens so long as it doesn’t happen to them.
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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The true Mason always carries his working tools everywhere.
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Substantial progress toward better things can rarely be taken without developing new evils requiring new remedies.
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The game of baseball is a clean, straight game.
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We can’t have a decent government unless those in power exercise self restraint.
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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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We are all dependent upon the investment of capital.
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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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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 glad to be going. This is the lonesomest pace in the world?
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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 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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Enthusiasm for a cause sometimes warps judgment.
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There is nothing so despicable as a secret society that is based upon religious prejudice and that will attempt to defeat a man because of his religious beliefs. Such a society is like a cockroach – it thrives in the dark. So do those who combine for such an end.
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A man never knows exactly how the child of his brain will strike other people.
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There is not a subject in which I take a deeper interest than I do in the development of Alaska, and I propose, if Congress will follow by recommendations, to do something in that territory that will make it move on.
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