One cannot always be sure of the truth of what one hears if he happens to be President of the United States.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFTWe, as Unitarians, may feel that the world is coming our way.
More William Howard Taft Quotes
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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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Don’t write so that you can be understood, write so that you can’t be misunderstood.
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Anti-Semitism is a noxious weed that should be cut out. It has no place in America.
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I do not believe in the divinity of Christ, and there are many other of the postulates of the orthodox creed to which I cannot subscribe.
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Well, I have one consolation. No candidate was ever elected ex-president by such a large majority!
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We, as Unitarians, may feel that the world is coming our way.
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The world is not going to be saved by legislation.
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A man never knows exactly how the child of his brain will strike other people.
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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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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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Enthusiasm for a cause sometimes warps judgment.
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Next to the right of liberty, the right of property is the most important individual right guaranteed by the Constitution . .
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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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I love judges, and I love courts. They are my ideals, that typify on earth what we shall meet hereafter in heaven under a just God.
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We passed the Children’s Bureau bill calculated to prevent children from being employed too early in factories.
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