A government is for the benefit of all the people.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT
I think I might as well give up being a candidate. There are so many people in the country who don’t like me.
More William Howard Taft Quotes
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A government is for the benefit of all the people.
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My impression about the Panama Canal is that the great revolution it is going to introduce in the trade of the world is in the trade between the east and the west coast of the United States.
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I am president now, and tired of being kicked around.
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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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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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We can’t have a decent government unless those in power exercise self restraint.
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The cheerful loser is a sort of winner.
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I love judges, and I love courts. They are my ideals, that typify on earth what we shall meet hereafter in heaven under a just God.
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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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I am afraid I am a constant disappointment to my party. The fact of the matter is, the longer I am President the less of a party man I seem to become.
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The precepts of the Gospel were universally the obligations of Masonry.
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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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We passed the Children’s Bureau bill calculated to prevent children from being employed too early in factories.
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The true Mason always carries his working tools everywhere.
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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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Action for which I become responsible, or for which my administration becomes responsible, shall be within the law.
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