We are all imperfect. We can not expect perfect government.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFTWe 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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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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That all may be so, but when I begin to exercise that power I am not conscious of the power, but only of the limitations imposed on me.
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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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One cannot always be sure of the truth of what one hears if he happens to be President of the United States.
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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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Enthusiasm for a cause sometimes warps judgment.
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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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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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If this humor be the safety of our race, then it is due largely to the infusion into the American people of the Irish brain.
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The game of baseball is a clean, straight game.
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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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My impression about the Panama Canal is that the great revolution it is going to introduce in the trade of the world is in the trade between the east and the west coast of the United States.
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We, as Unitarians, may feel that the world is coming our way.
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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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The true Mason always carries his working tools everywhere.
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