The trouble with me is that I like to talk too much.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFTSubstantial progress toward better things can rarely be taken without developing new evils requiring new remedies.
More William Howard Taft Quotes
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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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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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In the public interest, therefore, it is better that we lose the services of the exceptions who are good Judges after they are seventy and avoid the presence on the Bench of men who are not able to keep up with the work, or to perform it satisfactorily.
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I am president now, and tired of being kicked around.
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We are all dependent upon the investment of capital.
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The true Mason always carries his working tools everywhere.
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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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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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I am afraid I am a constant disappointment to my party. The fact of the matter is, the longer I am President the less of a party man I seem to become.
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One cannot always be sure of the truth of what one hears if he happens to be President of the United States.
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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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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.
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A government is for the benefit of all the 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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We have a government of limited power under the Constitution, and we have got to work out our problems on the basis of law.
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