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 TAFTWe, as Unitarians, may feel that the world is coming our way.
More William Howard Taft Quotes
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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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Politics, when I am in it, makes me sick.
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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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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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We passed the Children’s Bureau bill calculated to prevent children from being employed too early in factories.
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I don’t know the man I admire more than [Charles Evans] Hughes. If ever I have the chance I shall offer him the Chief Justiceship.
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Substantial progress toward better things can rarely be taken without developing new evils requiring new remedies.
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The true Mason does not hold or teach the attitude that, I am a Master Mason now and thus I no longer need to be concerned with using the working tools because they were given in the earlier degrees.
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Repeat mantra: Donuts are not vitamins, donuts are not.
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A man never knows exactly how the child of his brain will strike other people.
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We, as Unitarians, may feel that the world is coming our way.
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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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Well, I have one consolation. No candidate was ever elected ex-president by such a large majority!
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I am in favor of helping the prosperity of all countries because, when we are all prosperous, the trade with each becomes more valuable to the other.
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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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