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.
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 cheerful loser is a sort of winner.
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In the public interest, therefore, it is better that we lose the services of the exceptions who are good Judges after they are seventy and avoid the presence on the Bench of men who are not able to keep up with the work, or to perform it satisfactorily.
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I am glad to be going. This is the lonesomest pace in the world?
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Substantial progress toward better things can rarely be taken without developing new evils requiring new remedies.
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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 game of baseball is a clean, straight game.
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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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The true Mason always carries his working tools everywhere.
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A government is for the benefit of all the people.
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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.
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The laboring man and the trade-unionist, if I understand him, asks only equality before the law. Class legislation and unequal privilege, though expressly in his favor, will in the end work no benefit to him or to society.
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We have a government of limited power under the Constitution, and we have got to work out our problems on the basis of law.
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There are a great many people who are in favor of conservation no matter what it means.
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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 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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We 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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There is nothing so despicable as a secret society that is based upon religious prejudice and that will attempt to defeat a man because of his religious beliefs. Such a society is like a cockroach – it thrives in the dark. So do those who combine for such an end.
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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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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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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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We passed the Children’s Bureau bill calculated to prevent children from being employed too early in factories.
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Don’t write so that you can be understood, write so that you can’t be misunderstood.
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We, as Unitarians, may feel that the world is coming our way.
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The diplomacy of the present administration has sought to respond to the modern idea of commercial intercourse. This policy has been characterized as substituting dollars for bullets.
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Politics make me sick.
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A man never knows exactly how the child of his brain will strike other people.
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