We must dare to be great; and we must realize that greatness is the fruit of toil and sacrifice and high courage.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFTNo, the only things which do not bother me are the elements. I can overcome them without a fight. All one has to do to get the best of the elements is to stand pat and one will win.
More William Howard Taft Quotes
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The true Mason always carries his working tools everywhere.
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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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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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Too many people don’t care what happens so long as it doesn’t happen to them.
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Substantial progress toward better things can rarely be taken without developing new evils requiring new remedies.
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We are all dependent upon the investment of capital.
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We, as Unitarians, may feel that the world is coming our way.
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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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The world is not going to be saved by legislation.
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I am president now, and tired of being kicked around.
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I am glad to be going. This is the lonesomest pace in the world?
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If this humor be the safety of our race, then it is due largely to the infusion into the American people of the Irish brain.
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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.
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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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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.
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