We passed the Children’s Bureau bill calculated to prevent children from being employed too early in factories.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFTEnthusiasm for a cause sometimes warps judgment.
More William Howard Taft Quotes
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The true Mason never hesitates to use the working tools to correct personal flaws.
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We can’t have a decent government unless those in power exercise self restraint.
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I am glad to be going. This is the lonesomest pace in the world?
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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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I love judges, and I love courts. They are my ideals, that typify on earth what we shall meet hereafter in heaven under a just God.
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Politics make me sick.
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As the Republican platforms says, the welfare of the farmer is vital to that of the whole country.
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The true Mason takes full responsibility for the condition of his character and ever strives for its perfection.
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The trouble with me is that I like to talk too much.
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The world is not going to be saved by legislation.
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Don’t worry over what the newspapers say. I don’t. Why should anyone else? I told the truth to the newspaper correspondents – but when you tell the truth to them they are at sea.
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I don’t know whither we are drifting, but I do know where every real thinking patriot will stand in the end, and that’s by the Constitution.
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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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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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The game of baseball is a clean, straight game.
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