The truth is that in my present life I don’t remember that I ever was president.
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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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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Anti-Semitism is a noxious weed that should be cut out. It has no place in America.
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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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A system in which we may have an enforced rest from legislation for two years is not bad.
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I don’t know whither we are drifting, but I do know where every real thinking patriot will stand in the end, and that’s by the Constitution.
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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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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 true Mason ever strives to cultivate Masonry in his/her life to the fullest degree possible.
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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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A man never knows exactly how the child of his brain will strike other people.
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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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Politics make me sick.
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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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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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There is nothing so despicable as a secret society that is based upon religious prejudice and that will attempt to defeat a man because of his religious beliefs. Such a society is like a cockroach – it thrives in the dark. So do those who combine for such an end.
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