I am glad to be going. This is the lonesomest pace in the world?
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFTThe trouble with me is that I like to talk too much.
More William Howard Taft Quotes
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In the public interest, therefore, it is better that we lose the services of the exceptions who are good Judges after they are seventy and avoid the presence on the Bench of men who are not able to keep up with the work, or to perform it satisfactorily.
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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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The game of baseball is a clean, straight game.
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We live in a stage of politics, where legislators seem to regard the passage of laws as much more important than the results of their enforcement.
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I am president now, and tired of being kicked around.
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We are imperfect. We cannot expect perfect government.
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Next to the right of liberty, the right of property is the most important individual right guaranteed by the Constitution . .
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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.
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When the history of this period is written, [William Jennings] Bryan will stand out as one of the most remarkable men of his generation and one of the biggest political men of our country.
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The true Mason ever strives to cultivate Masonry in his/her life to the fullest degree possible.
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The trouble with me is that I like to talk too much.
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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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Well, I have one consolation. No candidate was ever elected ex-president by such a large majority!
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We are all imperfect. We can not expect perfect government.
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Enthusiasm for a cause sometimes warps judgment.
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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 make me sick.
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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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A government is for the benefit of all the people.
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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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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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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 man with the average mentality, but with control, with a definite goal, and a clear conception of how it can be gained, and above all, with the power of application and labor, wins in the end.
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Substantial progress toward better things can rarely be taken without developing new evils requiring new remedies.
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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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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.
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