I think his greatest fault is his failure to accord credit to anyone for what he may have done. This is a great weakness in any man.
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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Next to the right of liberty, the right of property is the most important individual right guaranteed by the Constitution . .
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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 ever strives to cultivate Masonry in his/her life to the fullest degree possible.
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The policy of dollar diplomacy is one that appeals alike to idealistic humanitarian sentiments, to dictates of sound policy, and strategy, and to legitimate commercial aims.
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The President cannot make clouds to rain and cannot make the corn to grow. He cannot make business good, although when these things occur, political parties do claim some credit for the good things that have happened in this way
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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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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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I am afraid I am a constant disappointment to my party. The fact of the matter is, the longer I am President the less of a party man I seem to become.
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The world is not going to be saved by legislation.
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Politics, when I am in it, makes me sick.
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Too many people don’t care what happens so long as it doesn’t happen to them.
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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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A man never knows exactly how the child of his brain will strike other people.
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I’ll be damned if I am not getting tired of this. It seems to be the profession of a President simply to hear other people talk.
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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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