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.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFTPolitics make me sick.
More William Howard Taft Quotes
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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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We are all dependent upon the investment of capital.
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The game of baseball is a clean, straight game, and it summons to its presence everybody who enjoys clean, straight athletics. It furnishes amusement to the thousands and thousands.
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We, as Unitarians, may feel that the world is coming our way.
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We have a government of limited power under the Constitution, and we have got to work out our problems on the basis of law.
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I am in favor of helping the prosperity of all countries because, when we are all prosperous, the trade with each becomes more valuable to the other.
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The policy of dollar diplomacy is one that appeals alike to idealistic humanitarian sentiments, to dictates of sound policy, and strategy, and to legitimate commercial aims.
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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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Action for which I become responsible, or for which my administration becomes responsible, shall be within the law.
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A government is for the benefit of all the people.
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I do not know much about politics, but I am trying to do the best I can with this administration until the time shall come for me to turn it over to somebody else.
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The true Mason does not hold or teach the attitude that, I am a Master Mason now and thus I no longer need to be concerned with using the working tools because they were given in the earlier degrees.
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The trouble with me is that I like to talk too much.
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One cannot always be sure of the truth of what one hears if he happens to be President of the United States.
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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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