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.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFTRepeat mantra: Donuts are not vitamins, donuts are not.
More William Howard Taft Quotes
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We can’t have a decent government unless those in power exercise self restraint.
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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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Politics make me sick.
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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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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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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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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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Repeat mantra: Donuts are not vitamins, donuts are not.
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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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A government is for the benefit of all the people.
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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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Don’t write so that you can be understood, write so that you can’t be misunderstood.
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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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There are a great many people who are in favor of conservation no matter what it means.
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Politics, when I am in it, makes me sick.
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