The true Mason takes full responsibility for the condition of his character and ever strives for its perfection.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFTThe President cannot make clouds to rain and cannot make the corn to grow. He cannot make business good, although when these things occur, political parties do claim some credit for the good things that have happened in this way
More William Howard Taft Quotes
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A man never knows exactly how the child of his brain will strike other people.
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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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We, as Unitarians, may feel that the world is coming our way.
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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 precepts of the Gospel were universally the obligations of Masonry.
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Presidents come and go, but the Supreme Court goes on forever.
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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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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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We can’t have a decent government unless those in power exercise self restraint.
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A government is for the benefit of all the people.
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Action for which I become responsible, or for which my administration becomes responsible, shall be within the law.
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The President cannot make clouds to rain and cannot make the corn to grow. He cannot make business good, although when these things occur, political parties do claim some credit for the good things that have happened in this way
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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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The truth is that in my present life I don’t remember that I ever was president.
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