Presidents come and go, but the Supreme Court goes on forever.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFTI 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.
More William Howard Taft Quotes
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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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The trouble with me is that I like to talk too much.
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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 true Mason is ever vigilant for subtle traces of character and personality flaws which daily experience brings out.
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As the Republican platforms says, the welfare of the farmer is vital to that of the whole country.
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Enthusiasm for a cause sometimes warps judgment.
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Too many people don’t care what happens so long as it doesn’t happen to them.
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We can’t have a decent government unless those in power exercise self restraint.
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We are all imperfect. We can not expect perfect government.
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The man with the average mentality, but with control, with a definite goal, and a clear conception of how it can be gained, and above all, with the power of application and labor, wins in the end.
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Socialism proposes no adequate substitute for the motive of enlightened selfishness that today is at the basis of all human labor and effort, enterprise and new activity.
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The game of baseball is a clean, straight game, and it summons to its presence everybody who enjoys clean, straight athletics. It furnishes amusement to the thousands and thousands.
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The Masonic system represents a stupendous and beautiful fabric, founded on universal purity, to rule and direct our passions, to have faith and love in God, and charity toward man.
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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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A system in which we may have an enforced rest from legislation for two years is not bad.
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