My impression about the Panama Canal is that the great revolution it is going to introduce in the trade of the world is in the trade between the east and the west coast of the United States.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFTThe trouble with me is that I like to talk too much.
More William Howard Taft Quotes
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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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A system in which we may have an enforced rest from legislation for two years is not bad.
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The trouble with me is that I like to talk too much.
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We, as Unitarians, may feel that the world is coming our way.
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There is nothing so despicable as a secret society that is based upon religious prejudice and that will attempt to defeat a man because of his religious beliefs. Such a society is like a cockroach – it thrives in the dark. So do those who combine for such an end.
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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’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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Anyone who has taken the oath I have just taken must feel a heavy weight of responsibility. If not, he has no conception of the powers and duties of the office.
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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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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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Politics make me sick.
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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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Presidents come and go, but the Supreme Court goes on forever.
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The true Mason never hesitates to use the working tools to correct personal flaws.
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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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