I think I might as well give up being a candidate. There are so many people in the country who don’t like me.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFTI am glad to be going. This is the lonesomest pace in the world?
More William Howard Taft Quotes
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The precepts of the Gospel were universally the obligations of Masonry.
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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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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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What I am anxious to do is to secure my legislation…. What I want to do is to get through that, and if I can point to a record of usefulness of that kind, I am entirely willing to quit office.
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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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If this humor be the safety of our race, then it is due largely to the infusion into the American people of the Irish brain.
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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.
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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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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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The game of baseball is a clean, straight game.
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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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Politics make me sick.
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As the Republican platforms says, the welfare of the farmer is vital to that of the whole country.
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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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Presidents come and go, but the Supreme Court goes on forever.
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