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.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFTAnyone 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.
More William Howard Taft Quotes
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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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The game of baseball is a clean, straight game.
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I don’t know whither we are drifting, but I do know where every real thinking patriot will stand in the end, and that’s by the Constitution.
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The world is not going to be saved by legislation.
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The true Mason’s level of discernment increases with every use of the working tools, because the true Mason is ever working on him/her self.
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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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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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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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The true Mason ever strives to cultivate Masonry in his/her life to the fullest degree possible.
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Politics make me sick.
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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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Don’t write so that you can be understood, write so that you can’t be misunderstood.
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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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I am glad to be going. This is the lonesomest pace in the world?
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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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