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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Anti-Semitism is a noxious weed that should be cut out. It has no place in America.
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No, the only things which do not bother me are the elements. I can overcome them without a fight. All one has to do to get the best of the elements is to stand pat and one will win.
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Golf in the interest of good health and good manners. It promotes self-restraint and affords a chance to play the man and act the gentleman.
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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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When the history of this period is written, [William Jennings] Bryan will stand out as one of the most remarkable men of his generation and one of the biggest political men of our country.
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The truth is that in my present life I don’t remember that I ever was president.
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The precepts of the Gospel were universally the obligations of Masonry.
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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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We can’t have a decent government unless those in power exercise self restraint.
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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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The cheerful loser is a sort of winner.
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The true Mason always carries his working tools everywhere.
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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 true Mason takes full responsibility for the condition of his character and ever strives for its perfection.
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I don’t know whither we are drifting, but I do know where every real thinking patriot will stand in the end, and that’s by the Constitution.
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