Substantial progress toward better things can rarely be taken without developing new evils requiring new remedies.
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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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.
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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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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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Anti-Semitism is a noxious weed that should be cut out. It has no place in America.
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The true Mason always carries his working tools everywhere.
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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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The man with the average mentality, but with control, with a definite goal, and a clear conception of how it can be gained, and above all, with the power of application and labor, wins in the end.
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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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Anyone who has taken the oath I have just taken must feel a heavy weight of responsibility. If not, he has no conception of the powers and duties of the office.
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Next to the right of liberty, the right of property is the most important individual right guaranteed by the Constitution . .
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The true Mason takes full responsibility for the condition of his character and ever strives for its perfection.
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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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Politics, when I am in it, makes me sick.
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The intoxication of power rapidly sobers off in the knowledge of its restrictions and under the prompt reminder of an ever-present and not always considerate press, as well as the kindly suggestions that not infrequently come from Congress.
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The precepts of the Gospel were universally the obligations of Masonry.
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