I am glad to be going. This is the lonesomest pace in the world?
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFTDon’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.
More William Howard Taft Quotes
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Repeat mantra: Donuts are not vitamins, donuts are not.
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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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We are all dependent upon the investment of capital.
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Presidents come and go, but the Supreme Court goes on forever.
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Action for which I become responsible, or for which my administration becomes responsible, shall be within the law.
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The true Mason’s level of discernment increases with every use of the working tools, because the true Mason is ever working on him/her self.
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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 trouble with me is that I like to talk too much.
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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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There is not a subject in which I take a deeper interest than I do in the development of Alaska, and I propose, if Congress will follow by recommendations, to do something in that territory that will make it move on.
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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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The game of baseball is a clean, straight game.
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A government is for the benefit of all the people.
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Enthusiasm for a cause sometimes warps judgment.
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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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