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I do not believe in the divinity of Christ, and there are many other of the postulates of the orthodox creed to which I cannot subscribe.

William Howard Taft

I am glad to be going. This is the lonesomest pace in the world?
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT

Happiness Lonely Myself Place World
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.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT

Administration Character Commercial Policy Present
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.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT

Equality Law Man Privilege Society Trade Understand
The game of baseball is a clean, straight game.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT

Cleaning Game Sports
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
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.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT

Act Golf Goodness Health Man Play Sports
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.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT

Admire Chief Himself Man Myself Offering
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.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT

Afraid Disappointment Man Myself Party
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
We are all imperfect. We can not expect perfect government.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT

Expectation Government Perfection
The true Mason does not hold or teach the attitude that, I am a Master Mason now and thus I no longer need to be concerned with using the working tools because they were given in the earlier degrees.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT

Attitude Degree Early Hold Need Teaching
The cheerful loser is a sort of winner.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT

Cheerful Lost Win
There are a great many people who are in favor of conservation no matter what it means.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT

Conservation Greatness People
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

Experience Hard Work Modern Myself Progress
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
Presidents come and go, but the Supreme Court goes on forever.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT

Court Forever President

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