We have a government of limited power under the Constitution, and we have got to work out our problems on the basis of law.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFTThere are a great many people who are in favor of conservation no matter what it means.
More William Howard Taft Quotes
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The game of baseball is a clean, straight game.
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My impression about the Panama Canal is that the great revolution it is going to introduce in the trade of the world is in the trade between the east and the west coast of the United States.
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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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Politics make me sick.
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The cheerful loser is a sort of winner.
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The policy of dollar diplomacy is one that appeals alike to idealistic humanitarian sentiments, to dictates of sound policy, and strategy, and to legitimate commercial aims.
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I don’t know the man I admire more than [Charles Evans] Hughes. If ever I have the chance I shall offer him the Chief Justiceship.
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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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The true Mason never hesitates to use the working tools to correct personal flaws.
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Politics, when I am in it, makes me sick.
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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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I am glad to be going. This is the lonesomest pace in the world?
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I know how irritating it is to have somebody else lay down rules for your moral uplift, but you’ve got to stand a great deal in order to make progress.
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We are all imperfect. We can not expect perfect government.
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The true Mason is ever vigilant for subtle traces of character and personality flaws which daily experience brings out.
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