My impression about the Panama Canal is that the great revolution it is going to introduce in the trade of the world is in the trade between the east and the west coast of the United States.
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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Too many people don’t care what happens so long as it doesn’t happen to them.
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Enthusiasm for a cause sometimes warps judgment.
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The true Mason is ever vigilant for subtle traces of character and personality flaws which daily experience brings out.
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I am glad to be going. This is the lonesomest pace in the world?
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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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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.
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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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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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The true Mason always carries his working tools everywhere.
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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 can’t have a decent government unless those in power exercise self restraint.
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The true Mason ever strives to cultivate Masonry in his/her life to the fullest degree possible.
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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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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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We, as Unitarians, may feel that the world is coming our way.
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