Don’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.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFTThe cheerful loser is a sort of winner.
More William Howard Taft Quotes
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Don’t write so that you can be understood, write so that you can’t be misunderstood.
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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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The precepts of the Gospel were universally the obligations of Masonry.
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I love judges, and I love courts. They are my ideals, that typify on earth what we shall meet hereafter in heaven under a just God.
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We are all dependent upon the investment of capital.
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Repeat mantra: Donuts are not vitamins, donuts are not.
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A government is for the benefit of all the people.
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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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Socialism proposes no adequate substitute for the motive of enlightened selfishness that today is at the basis of all human labor and effort, enterprise and new activity.
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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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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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We, as Unitarians, may feel that the world is coming our way.
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The true Mason always carries his working tools everywhere.
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Enthusiasm for a cause sometimes warps judgment.
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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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