We are all imperfect. We can not expect perfect government.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFTThe cheerful loser is a sort of winner.
More William Howard Taft Quotes
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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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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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The intoxication of power rapidly sobers off in the knowledge of its restrictions and under the prompt reminder of an ever-present and not always considerate press, as well as the kindly suggestions that not infrequently come from Congress.
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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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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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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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A man never knows exactly how the child of his brain will strike other people.
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We are imperfect. We cannot expect perfect government.
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Anyone who has taken the oath I have just taken must feel a heavy weight of responsibility. If not, he has no conception of the powers and duties of the office.
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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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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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Politics, when I am in it, makes me sick.
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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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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 am glad to be going. This is the lonesomest pace in the world?
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The true Mason takes full responsibility for the condition of his character and ever strives for its perfection.
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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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The laboring man and the trade-unionist, if I understand him, asks only equality before the law. Class legislation and unequal privilege, though expressly in his favor, will in the end work no benefit to him or to society.
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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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The true Mason always carries his working tools everywhere.
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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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I think his greatest fault is his failure to accord credit to anyone for what he may have done. This is a great weakness in any man.
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No, the only things which do not bother me are the elements. I can overcome them without a fight. All one has to do to get the best of the elements is to stand pat and one will win.
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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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The world is not going to be saved by legislation.
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That all may be so, but when I begin to exercise that power I am not conscious of the power, but only of the limitations imposed on me.
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