Action for which I become responsible, or for which my administration becomes responsible, shall be within the law.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFTRepeat mantra: Donuts are not vitamins, donuts are not.
More William Howard Taft Quotes
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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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The true Mason takes full responsibility for the condition of his character and ever strives for its perfection.
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I think I might as well give up being a candidate. There are so many people in the country who don’t like me.
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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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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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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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The precepts of the Gospel were universally the obligations of Masonry.
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The trouble with me is that I like to talk too much.
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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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We are all imperfect. We can not expect perfect government.
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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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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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The cheerful loser is a sort of winner.
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A man never knows exactly how the child of his brain will strike other people.
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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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