Too many people don’t care what happens so long as it doesn’t happen to them.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFTThe world is not going to be saved by legislation.
More William Howard Taft Quotes
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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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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 are all imperfect. We can not expect perfect government.
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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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Politics make me sick.
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A government is for the benefit of all the people.
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Repeat mantra: Donuts are not vitamins, donuts are not.
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The President cannot make clouds to rain and cannot make the corn to grow. He cannot make business good, although when these things occur, political parties do claim some credit for the good things that have happened in this way
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I am president now, and tired of being kicked around.
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The precepts of the Gospel were universally the obligations of Masonry.
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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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The game of baseball is a clean, straight game, and it summons to its presence everybody who enjoys clean, straight athletics. It furnishes amusement to the thousands and thousands.
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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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Next to the right of liberty, the right of property is the most important individual right guaranteed by the Constitution . .
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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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