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.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFTPresidents come and go, but the Supreme Court goes on forever.
More William Howard Taft Quotes
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Politics, when I am in it, makes me sick.
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My impression about the Panama Canal is that the great revolution it is going to introduce in the trade of the world is in the trade between the east and the west coast of the United States.
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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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I think his greatest fault is his failure to accord credit to anyone for what he may have done. This is a great weakness in any man.
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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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The cheerful loser is a sort of winner.
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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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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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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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Substantial progress toward better things can rarely be taken without developing new evils requiring new remedies.
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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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The diplomacy of the present administration has sought to respond to the modern idea of commercial intercourse. This policy has been characterized as substituting dollars for bullets.
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There are a great many people who are in favor of conservation no matter what it means.
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We can’t have a decent government unless those in power exercise self restraint.
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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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We must dare to be great; and we must realize that greatness is the fruit of toil and sacrifice and high courage.
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Repeat mantra: Donuts are not vitamins, donuts are not.
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The true Mason always carries his working tools everywhere.
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The true Mason ever strives to cultivate Masonry in his/her life to the fullest degree possible.
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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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Enthusiasm for a cause sometimes warps judgment.
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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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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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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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The intoxication of power rapidly sobers off in the knowledge of its restrictions and under the prompt reminder of an ever-present and not always considerate press, as well as the kindly suggestions that not infrequently come from Congress.
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Presidents come and go, but the Supreme Court goes on forever.
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