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 TAFTAnti-Semitism is a noxious weed that should be cut out. It has no place in America.
More William Howard Taft Quotes
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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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When the history of this period is written, [William Jennings] Bryan will stand out as one of the most remarkable men of his generation and one of the biggest political men of our country.
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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 am president now, and tired of being kicked around.
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We must dare to be great; and we must realize that greatness is the fruit of toil and sacrifice and high courage.
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Politics, when I am in it, makes me sick.
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Well, I have one consolation. No candidate was ever elected ex-president by such a large majority!
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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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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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As the Republican platforms says, the welfare of the farmer is vital to that of the whole country.
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I am glad to be going. This is the lonesomest pace in the world?
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A government is for the benefit of all the people.
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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.
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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.
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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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