We have a government of limited power under the Constitution, and we have got to work out our problems on the basis of law.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFTPolitics make me sick.
More William Howard Taft Quotes
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I know this, and I know it from actual experience in the Orient, that the progress of modern Christian civilization has largely depended on the earnest hard work of the Christian missions of every denomination.
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Politics make me sick.
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A man never knows exactly how the child of his brain will strike other people.
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Substantial progress toward better things can rarely be taken without developing new evils requiring new remedies.
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Presidents come and go, but the Supreme Court goes on forever.
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The President cannot make clouds to rain and cannot make the corn to grow. He cannot make business good, although when these things occur, political parties do claim some credit for the good things that have happened in this way
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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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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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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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The true Mason always carries his working tools everywhere.
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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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The truth is that in my present life I don’t remember that I ever was president.
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Politics, when I am in it, makes me sick.
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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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Next to the right of liberty, the right of property is the most important individual right guaranteed by the Constitution . .
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