The truth is that in my present life I don’t remember that I ever was president.
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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The trouble with me is that I like to talk too much.
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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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I know this, and I know it from actual experience in the Orient, that the progress of modern Christian civilization has largely depended on the earnest hard work of the Christian missions of every denomination.
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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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The world is not going to be saved by legislation.
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The Masonic system represents a stupendous and beautiful fabric, founded on universal purity, to rule and direct our passions, to have faith and love in God, and charity toward man.
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The intoxication of power rapidly sobers off in the knowledge of its restrictions and under the prompt reminder of an ever-present and not always considerate press, as well as the kindly suggestions that not infrequently come from Congress.
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The true Mason is ever vigilant for subtle traces of character and personality flaws which daily experience brings out.
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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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Don’t write so that you can be understood, write so that you can’t be misunderstood.
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The true Mason never hesitates to use the working tools to correct personal flaws.
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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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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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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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We, as Unitarians, may feel that the world is coming our way.
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