We can’t have a decent government unless those in power exercise self restraint.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFTWe, as Unitarians, may feel that the world is coming our way.
More William Howard Taft Quotes
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We live in a stage of politics, where legislators seem to regard the passage of laws as much more important than the results of their enforcement.
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We are imperfect. We cannot expect perfect government.
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I do not know much about politics, but I am trying to do the best I can with this administration until the time shall come for me to turn it over to somebody else.
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The true Mason’s level of discernment increases with every use of the working tools, because the true Mason is ever working on him/her self.
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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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Politics make me sick.
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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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I am glad to be going. This is the lonesomest pace in the world?
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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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The trouble with me is that I like to talk too much.
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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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I am president now, and tired of being kicked around.
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The true Mason is ever vigilant for subtle traces of character and personality flaws which daily experience brings out.
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Politics, when I am in it, makes me sick.
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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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