We are all imperfect. We can not expect perfect government.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFTThe world is not going to be saved by legislation.
More William Howard Taft Quotes
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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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We can’t have a decent government unless those in power exercise self restraint.
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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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Action for which I become responsible, or for which my administration becomes responsible, shall be within the law.
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The trouble with me is that I like to talk too much.
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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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If they will play fair I will play fair, but if they won’t then I reserve all my rights to do anything I find myself able to do.
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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.
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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 know this, and I know it from actual experience in the Orient, that the progress of modern Christian civilization has largely depended on the earnest hard work of the Christian missions of every denomination.
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Politics make me sick.
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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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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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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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Well, I have one consolation. No candidate was ever elected ex-president by such a large majority!
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