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.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFTWe 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.
More William Howard Taft Quotes
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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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A system in which we may have an enforced rest from legislation for two years is not bad.
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Anyone who has taken the oath I have just taken must feel a heavy weight of responsibility. If not, he has no conception of the powers and duties of the office.
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I 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.
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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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The true Mason never hesitates to use the working tools to correct personal flaws.
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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 glad to be going. This is the lonesomest pace in the world?
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The trouble with me is that I like to talk too much.
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Politics, when I am in it, makes me sick.
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I am president now, and tired of being kicked around.
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That all may be so, but when I begin to exercise that power I am not conscious of the power, but only of the limitations imposed on me.
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The game of baseball is a clean, straight game.
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Enthusiasm for a cause sometimes warps judgment.
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