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.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFTWe passed the Children’s Bureau bill calculated to prevent children from being employed too early in factories.
More William Howard Taft Quotes
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Constitutions are checks upon the hasty action of the majority. They are the self-imposed restraints of a whole people upon a majority of them to secure sober action and a respect for the rights of the minority.
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The game of baseball is a clean, straight game.
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I don’t know the man I admire more than [Charles Evans] Hughes. If ever I have the chance I shall offer him the Chief Justiceship.
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Substantial progress toward better things can rarely be taken without developing new evils requiring new remedies.
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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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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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Anyone 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.
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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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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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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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The truth is that in my present life I don’t remember that I ever was president.
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The laboring man and the trade-unionist, if I understand him, asks only equality before the law. Class legislation and unequal privilege, though expressly in his favor, will in the end work no benefit to him or to society.
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We are all dependent upon the investment of capital.
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If they will play fair I will play fair, but if they won’t then I reserve all my rights to do anything I find myself able to do.
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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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