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.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFTAction for which I become responsible, or for which my administration becomes responsible, shall be within the law.
More William Howard Taft Quotes
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We shall have to begin all over again. [Taft hoped that] the Senators might change their minds, or that the people might change the Senate; instead of which they changed me.
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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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The true Mason’s level of discernment increases with every use of the working tools, because the true Mason is ever working on him/her self.
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Presidents come and go, but the Supreme Court goes on forever.
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We are imperfect. We cannot expect perfect government.
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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 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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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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A government is for the benefit of all the people.
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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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The game of baseball is a clean, straight game.
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The trouble with me is that I like to talk too much.
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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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If they will play fair I will play fair, but if they won’t then I reserve all my rights to do anything I find myself able to do.
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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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