We are all imperfect. We can not expect perfect government.
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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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’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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I am president now, and tired of being kicked around.
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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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Politics, when I am in it, makes me sick.
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In the public interest, therefore, it is better that we lose the services of the exceptions who are good Judges after they are seventy and avoid the presence on the Bench of men who are not able to keep up with the work, or to perform it satisfactorily.
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Don’t worry over what the newspapers say. I don’t. Why should anyone else? I told the truth to the newspaper correspondents – but when you tell the truth to them they are at sea.
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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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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 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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What I am anxious to do is to secure my legislation…. What I want to do is to get through that, and if I can point to a record of usefulness of that kind, I am entirely willing to quit office.
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The world is not going to be saved by legislation.
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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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Enthusiasm for a cause sometimes warps judgment.
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We are imperfect. We cannot expect perfect government.
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The cheerful loser is a sort of winner.
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The true Mason takes full responsibility for the condition of his character and ever strives for its perfection.
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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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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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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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One cannot always be sure of the truth of what one hears if he happens to be President of the United States.
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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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We are all dependent upon the investment of capital.
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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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Repeat mantra: Donuts are not vitamins, donuts are not.
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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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