Too many people don’t care what happens so long as it doesn’t happen to them.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFTThe game of baseball is a clean, straight game.
More William Howard Taft Quotes
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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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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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A government is for the benefit of all the people.
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We, as Unitarians, may feel that the world is coming our way.
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We can’t have a decent government unless those in power exercise self restraint.
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A man never knows exactly how the child of his brain will strike other people.
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No, the only things which do not bother me are the elements. I can overcome them without a fight. All one has to do to get the best of the elements is to stand pat and one will win.
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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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The trouble with me is that I like to talk too much.
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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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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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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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Don’t write so that you can be understood, write so that you can’t be misunderstood.
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Enthusiasm for a cause sometimes warps judgment.
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