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 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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We passed the Children’s Bureau bill calculated to prevent children from being employed too early in factories.
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Substantial progress toward better things can rarely be taken without developing new evils requiring new remedies.
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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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If they will play fair I will play fair, but if they won’t then I reserve all my rights to do anything I find myself able to do.
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I am glad to be going. This is the lonesomest pace in the world?
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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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Repeat mantra: Donuts are not vitamins, donuts are not.
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The precepts of the Gospel were universally the obligations of Masonry.
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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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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 cheerful loser is a sort of winner.
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I have come to the conclusion that the major part of the president is to increase the gate receipts of expositions and fairs and bring tourists to town.
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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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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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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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