Enthusiasm for a cause sometimes warps judgment.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFTI 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.
More William Howard Taft Quotes
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Next to the right of liberty, the right of property is the most important individual right guaranteed by the Constitution . .
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We are all dependent upon the investment of capital.
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I am glad to be going. This is the lonesomest pace in the world?
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Presidents come and go, but the Supreme Court goes on forever.
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Politics make me sick.
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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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Action for which I become responsible, or for which my administration becomes responsible, shall be within the law.
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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.
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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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The Masonic system represents a stupendous and beautiful fabric, founded on universal purity, to rule and direct our passions, to have faith and love in God, and charity toward man.
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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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The world is not going to be saved by legislation.
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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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Well, I have one consolation. No candidate was ever elected ex-president by such a large majority!
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Politics, when I am in it, makes me sick.
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