The true Mason never hesitates to use the working tools to correct personal flaws.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFTI 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.
More William Howard Taft Quotes
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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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The trouble with me is that I like to talk too much.
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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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A man never knows exactly how the child of his brain will strike other people.
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Enthusiasm for a cause sometimes warps judgment.
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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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Substantial progress toward better things can rarely be taken without developing new evils requiring new remedies.
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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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The truth is that in my present life I don’t remember that I ever was president.
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What I am anxious to do is to secure my legislation…. What I want to do is to get through that, and if I can point to a record of usefulness of that kind, I am entirely willing to quit office.
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I am glad to be going. This is the lonesomest pace in the world?
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The world is not going to be saved by legislation.
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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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