Politics, when I am in it, makes me sick.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFTThe game of baseball is a clean, straight game.
More William Howard Taft Quotes
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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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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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Next to the right of liberty, the right of property is the most important individual right guaranteed by the Constitution . .
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The trouble with me is that I like to talk too much.
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The President cannot make clouds to rain and cannot make the corn to grow. He cannot make business good, although when these things occur, political parties do claim some credit for the good things that have happened in this way
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Repeat mantra: Donuts are not vitamins, donuts are not.
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I think his greatest fault is his failure to accord credit to anyone for what he may have done. This is a great weakness in any 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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Well, I have one consolation. No candidate was ever elected ex-president by such a large majority!
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I am president now, and tired of being kicked around.
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We are all imperfect. We can not expect perfect government.
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I love judges, and I love courts. They are my ideals, that typify on earth what we shall meet hereafter in heaven under a just God.
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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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I don’t know the man I admire more than [Charles Evans] Hughes. If ever I have the chance I shall offer him the Chief Justiceship.
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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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