The true Mason never hesitates to use the working tools to correct personal flaws.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFTI 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.
More William Howard Taft Quotes
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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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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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The true Mason takes full responsibility for the condition of his character and ever strives for its perfection.
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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 passed the Children’s Bureau bill calculated to prevent children from being employed too early in factories.
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Substantial progress toward better things can rarely be taken without developing new evils requiring new remedies.
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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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Enthusiasm for a cause sometimes warps judgment.
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Anyone who has taken the oath I have just taken must feel a heavy weight of responsibility. If not, he has no conception of the powers and duties of the office.
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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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The trouble with me is that I like to talk too much.
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Socialism proposes no adequate substitute for the motive of enlightened selfishness that today is at the basis of all human labor and effort, enterprise and new activity.
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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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Next to the right of liberty, the right of property is the most important individual right guaranteed by the Constitution . .
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We must dare to be great; and we must realize that greatness is the fruit of toil and sacrifice and high courage.
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