One cannot always be sure of the truth of what one hears if he happens to be President of the United States.
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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Anti-Semitism is a noxious weed that should be cut out. It has no place in America.
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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 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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Presidents come and go, but the Supreme Court goes on forever.
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The cheerful loser is a sort of winner.
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I think I might as well give up being a candidate. There are so many people in the country who don’t like me.
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A man never knows exactly how the child of his brain will strike other people.
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The precepts of the Gospel were universally the obligations of Masonry.
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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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We passed the Children’s Bureau bill calculated to prevent children from being employed too early in factories.
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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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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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Politics, when I am in it, makes me sick.
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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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Golf in the interest of good health and good manners. It promotes self-restraint and affords a chance to play the man and act the gentleman.
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