Don’t write so that you can be understood, write so that you can’t be misunderstood.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFTThe trouble with me is that I like to talk too much.
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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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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I do not know much about politics, but I am trying to do the best I can with this administration until the time shall come for me to turn it over to somebody else.
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Action for which I become responsible, or for which my administration becomes responsible, shall be within the law.
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Substantial progress toward better things can rarely be taken without developing new evils requiring new remedies.
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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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We must dare to be great; and we must realize that greatness is the fruit of toil and sacrifice and high courage.
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Constitutions are checks upon the hasty action of the majority. They are the self-imposed restraints of a whole people upon a majority of them to secure sober action and a respect for the rights of the minority.
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I know this, and I know it from actual experience in the Orient, that the progress of modern Christian civilization has largely depended on the earnest hard work of the Christian missions of every denomination.
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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.
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The diplomacy of the present administration has sought to respond to the modern idea of commercial intercourse. This policy has been characterized as substituting dollars for bullets.
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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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The precepts of the Gospel were universally the obligations of Masonry.
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We are all dependent upon the investment of capital.
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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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