A system in which we may have an enforced rest from legislation for two years is not bad.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFTI 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.
More William Howard Taft Quotes
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Politics, when I am in it, makes me sick.
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The laboring man and the trade-unionist, if I understand him, asks only equality before the law. Class legislation and unequal privilege, though expressly in his favor, will in the end work no benefit to him or to society.
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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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We can’t have a decent government unless those in power exercise self restraint.
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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 true Mason is ever vigilant for subtle traces of character and personality flaws which daily experience brings out.
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The policy of dollar diplomacy is one that appeals alike to idealistic humanitarian sentiments, to dictates of sound policy, and strategy, and to legitimate commercial aims.
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The true Mason does not hold or teach the attitude that, I am a Master Mason now and thus I no longer need to be concerned with using the working tools because they were given in the earlier degrees.
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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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A government is for the benefit of all the people.
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We have a government of limited power under the Constitution, and we have got to work out our problems on the basis of law.
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I am president now, and tired of being kicked around.
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The truth is that in my present life I don’t remember that I ever was president.
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I have come to the conclusion that the major part of the president is to increase the gate receipts of expositions and fairs and bring tourists to town.
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I do not believe in the divinity of Christ, and there are many other of the postulates of the orthodox creed to which I cannot subscribe.
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