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.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFTI 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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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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Substantial progress toward better things can rarely be taken without developing new evils requiring new remedies.
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The cheerful loser is a sort of winner.
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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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Enthusiasm for a cause sometimes warps judgment.
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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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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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I’ll be damned if I am not getting tired of this. It seems to be the profession of a President simply to hear other people talk.
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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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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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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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Anti-Semitism is a noxious weed that should be cut out. It has no place in America.
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I am glad to be going. This is the lonesomest pace in the world?
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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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In the public interest, therefore, it is better that we lose the services of the exceptions who are good Judges after they are seventy and avoid the presence on the Bench of men who are not able to keep up with the work, or to perform it satisfactorily.
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We, as Unitarians, may feel that the world is coming our way.
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As the Republican platforms says, the welfare of the farmer is vital to that of the whole country.
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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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Don’t write so that you can be understood, write so that you can’t be misunderstood.
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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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A government is for the benefit of all the people.
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The intoxication of power rapidly sobers off in the knowledge of its restrictions and under the prompt reminder of an ever-present and not always considerate press, as well as the kindly suggestions that not infrequently come from Congress.
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The true Mason is ever vigilant for subtle traces of character and personality flaws which daily experience brings out.
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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 imperfect. We can not expect perfect government.
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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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