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.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFTPolitics make me sick.
More William Howard Taft Quotes
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I know how irritating it is to have somebody else lay down rules for your moral uplift, but you’ve got to stand a great deal in order to make progress.
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I do not believe in the divinity of Christ, and there are many other of the postulates of the orthodox creed to which I cannot subscribe.
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We, as Unitarians, may feel that the world is coming our way.
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Constitutions are checks upon the hasty action of the majority. They are the self-imposed restraints of a whole people upon a majority of them to secure sober action and a respect for the rights of the minority.
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Substantial progress toward better things can rarely be taken without developing new evils requiring new remedies.
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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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Well, I have one consolation. No candidate was ever elected ex-president by such a large majority!
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The game of baseball is a clean, straight game.
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Presidents come and go, but the Supreme Court goes on forever.
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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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When the history of this period is written, [William Jennings] Bryan will stand out as one of the most remarkable men of his generation and one of the biggest political men of our country.
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Repeat mantra: Donuts are not vitamins, donuts are not.
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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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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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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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