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.
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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Well, I have one consolation. No candidate was ever elected ex-president by such a large majority!
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I love judges, and I love courts. They are my ideals, that typify on earth what we shall meet hereafter in heaven under a just God.
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I am glad to be going. This is the lonesomest pace in the world?
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The true Mason always carries his working tools everywhere.
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We are all dependent upon the investment of capital.
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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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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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Enthusiasm for a cause sometimes warps judgment.
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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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I am in favor of helping the prosperity of all countries because, when we are all prosperous, the trade with each becomes more valuable to the other.
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We, as Unitarians, may feel that the world is coming our way.
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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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That all may be so, but when I begin to exercise that power I am not conscious of the power, but only of the limitations imposed on me.
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The true Mason’s level of discernment increases with every use of the working tools, because the true Mason is ever working on him/her self.
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The cheerful loser is a sort of winner.
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No tendency is quite so strong in human nature as the desire to lay down rules of conduct for other people.
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The laboring man and the trade-unionist, if I understand him, asks only equality before the law. Class legislation and unequal privilege, though expressly in his favor, will in the end work no benefit to him or to society.
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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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Repeat mantra: Donuts are not vitamins, donuts are not.
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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 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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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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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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We passed the Children’s Bureau bill calculated to prevent children from being employed too early in factories.
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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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