What I am anxious to do is to secure my legislation…. What I want to do is to get through that, and if I can point to a record of usefulness of that kind, I am entirely willing to quit office.
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.
More William Howard Taft Quotes
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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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The man with the average mentality, but with control, with a definite goal, and a clear conception of how it can be gained, and above all, with the power of application and labor, wins in the end.
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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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No tendency is quite so strong in human nature as the desire to lay down rules of conduct for other people.
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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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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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The true Mason ever strives to cultivate Masonry in his/her life to the fullest degree possible.
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I am president now, and tired of being kicked around.
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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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Politics make me sick.
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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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We passed the Children’s Bureau bill calculated to prevent children from being employed too early in factories.
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I think I might as well give up being a candidate. There are so many people in the country who don’t like me.
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A system in which we may have an enforced rest from legislation for two years is not bad.
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The cheerful loser is a sort of winner.
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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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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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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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I am afraid I am a constant disappointment to my party. The fact of the matter is, the longer I am President the less of a party man I seem to become.
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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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No, the only things which do not bother me are the elements. I can overcome them without a fight. All one has to do to get the best of the elements is to stand pat and one will win.
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The true Mason is ever vigilant for subtle traces of character and personality flaws which daily experience brings out.
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The Masonic system represents a stupendous and beautiful fabric, founded on universal purity, to rule and direct our passions, to have faith and love in God, and charity toward man.
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The truth is that in my present life I don’t remember that I ever was president.
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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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