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.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFTThere is not a subject in which I take a deeper interest than I do in the development of Alaska, and I propose, if Congress will follow by recommendations, to do something in that territory that will make it move on.
More William Howard Taft Quotes
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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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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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There is not a subject in which I take a deeper interest than I do in the development of Alaska, and I propose, if Congress will follow by recommendations, to do something in that territory that will make it move on.
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The cheerful loser is a sort of winner.
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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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Socialism proposes no adequate substitute for the motive of enlightened selfishness that today is at the basis of all human labor and effort, enterprise and new activity.
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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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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 true Mason always carries his working tools everywhere.
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We, as Unitarians, may feel that the world is coming our way.
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I don’t know whither we are drifting, but I do know where every real thinking patriot will stand in the end, and that’s by the Constitution.
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The true Mason’s level of discernment increases with every use of the working tools, because the true Mason is ever working on him/her self.
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There are a great many people who are in favor of conservation no matter what it means.
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The precepts of the Gospel were universally the obligations of Masonry.
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If this humor be the safety of our race, then it is due largely to the infusion into the American people of the Irish brain.
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