Presidents come and go, but the Supreme Court goes on forever.
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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We shall have to begin all over again. [Taft hoped that] the Senators might change their minds, or that the people might change the Senate; instead of which they changed me.
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Enthusiasm for a cause sometimes warps judgment.
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A government is for the benefit of all the people.
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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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The trouble with me is that I like to talk too much.
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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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There is nothing so despicable as a secret society that is based upon religious prejudice and that will attempt to defeat a man because of his religious beliefs. Such a society is like a cockroach – it thrives in the dark. So do those who combine for such an end.
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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.
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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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I think I might as well give up being a candidate. There are so many people in the country who don’t like me.
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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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We are all dependent upon the investment of capital.
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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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I am in favor of helping the prosperity of all countries because, when we are all prosperous, the trade with each becomes more valuable to the other.
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Substantial progress toward better things can rarely be taken without developing new evils requiring new remedies.
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