Too many people don’t care what happens so long as it doesn’t happen to them.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFTWe, as Unitarians, may feel that the world is coming our way.
More William Howard Taft Quotes
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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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The cheerful loser is a sort of winner.
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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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There are a great many people who are in favor of conservation no matter what it means.
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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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The true Mason always carries his working tools everywhere.
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We, as Unitarians, may feel that the world is coming our way.
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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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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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Golf in the interest of good health and good manners. It promotes self-restraint and affords a chance to play the man and act the gentleman.
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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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I am president now, and tired of being kicked around.
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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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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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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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