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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.

William Howard Taft

Politics make me sick.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT

One Liner Politics Sick
I’ll be damned if I am not getting tired of this. It seems to be the profession of a President simply to hear other people talk.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT

Myself People President Profession Simplicity Talk Tired
I think his greatest fault is his failure to accord credit to anyone for what he may have done. This is a great weakness in any man.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT

Greatness Man Mistake Thinking Weakness
Don’t write so that you can be understood, write so that you can’t be misunderstood.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT

Understand Writing Yourself
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.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT

Constitution Drift End Reality Stand Thinking
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.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT

Important Live Politics Result Stage Time
No tendency is quite so strong in human nature as the desire to lay down rules of conduct for other people.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT

Human Nature People Quite Rule Strong
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.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT

Country Favor Help Myself Prosperity Value
Too many people don’t care what happens so long as it doesn’t happen to them.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT

Action Care People
I know how irritating it is to have somebody else lay down rules for your moral uplift, but you’ve got to stand a great deal in order to make progress.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT

Greatness Irritation Moral Myself Order Rule Stand
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.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT

Deep Development Interest Move On Myself Recommendation Subject
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.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT

Charity Faith God Love Man Purity Representation System Universal
Socialism proposes no adequate substitute for the motive of enlightened selfishness that today is at the basis of all human labor and effort, enterprise and new activity.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT

Basis Effort Enterprise Human Labor Propose Social Substitution
One cannot always be sure of the truth of what one hears if he happens to be President of the United States.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT

Oneself President State Truth
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.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT

Fair Myself Play Reserve Right
I am glad to be going. This is the lonesomest pace in the world?
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT

Happiness Lonely Myself Place World

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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