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 TAFTA man never knows exactly how the child of his brain will strike other people.
More William Howard Taft Quotes
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Anti-Semitism is a noxious weed that should be cut out. It has no place in America.
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The game of baseball is a clean, straight game, and it summons to its presence everybody who enjoys clean, straight athletics. It furnishes amusement to the thousands and thousands.
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We, as Unitarians, may feel that the world is coming our way.
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We are all imperfect. We can not expect perfect government.
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We are all dependent upon the investment of capital.
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The cheerful loser is a sort of winner.
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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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A system in which we may have an enforced rest from legislation for two years is not bad.
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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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We passed the Children’s Bureau bill calculated to prevent children from being employed too early in factories.
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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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The truth is that in my present life I don’t remember that I ever was president.
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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 game of baseball is a clean, straight game.
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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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