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.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFTToo many people don’t care what happens so long as it doesn’t happen to them.
More William Howard Taft Quotes
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Substantial progress toward better things can rarely be taken without developing new evils requiring new remedies.
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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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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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I am glad to be going. This is the lonesomest pace in the world?
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We are imperfect. We cannot expect perfect government.
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We passed the Children’s Bureau bill calculated to prevent children from being employed too early in factories.
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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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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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There are a great many people who are in favor of conservation no matter what it means.
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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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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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I know how irritating it is to have somebody else lay down rules for your moral uplift, but you’ve got to stand a great deal in order to make progress.
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Anti-Semitism is a noxious weed that should be cut out. It has no place in America.
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We, as Unitarians, may feel that the world is coming our way.
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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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