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.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFTWe, as Unitarians, may feel that the world is coming our way.
More William Howard Taft Quotes
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We, as Unitarians, may feel that the world is coming our way.
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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 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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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 trouble with me is that I like to talk too much.
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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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Action for which I become responsible, or for which my administration becomes responsible, shall be within the law.
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Substantial progress toward better things can rarely be taken without developing new evils requiring new remedies.
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There is not a subject in which I take a deeper interest than I do in the development of Alaska, and I propose, if Congress will follow by recommendations, to do something in that territory that will make it move on.
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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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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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The true Mason ever strives to cultivate Masonry in his/her life to the fullest degree possible.
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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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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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We are imperfect. We cannot expect perfect government.
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