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 TAFTEnthusiasm for a cause sometimes warps judgment.
More William Howard Taft Quotes
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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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Golf in the interest of good health and good manners. It promotes self-restraint and affords a chance to play the man and act the gentleman.
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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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Repeat mantra: Donuts are not vitamins, donuts are not.
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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 precepts of the Gospel were universally the obligations of Masonry.
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Presidents come and go, but the Supreme Court goes on forever.
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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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Next to the right of liberty, the right of property is the most important individual right guaranteed by the Constitution . .
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The world is not going to be saved by legislation.
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I am glad to be going. This is the lonesomest pace in the world?
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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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The true Mason always carries his working tools everywhere.
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I am president now, and tired of being kicked around.
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