Socialism proposes no adequate substitute for the motive of enlightened selfishness that today is at the basis of all human labor and effort, enterprise and new activity.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFTRepeat mantra: Donuts are not vitamins, donuts are not.
More William Howard Taft Quotes
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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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The precepts of the Gospel were universally the obligations of Masonry.
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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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The game of baseball is a clean, straight game.
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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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There are a great many people who are in favor of conservation no matter what it means.
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The true Mason never hesitates to use the working tools to correct personal flaws.
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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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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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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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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 true Mason is ever vigilant for subtle traces of character and personality flaws which daily experience brings out.
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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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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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