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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.

William Howard Taft

I am glad to be going. This is the lonesomest pace in the world?
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT

Happiness Lonely Myself Place World
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 TAFT

Anxious Legislation Office Quit Security Willing
The true Mason never hesitates to use the working tools to correct personal flaws.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT

Flaw Hesitation Personal Tools Work
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.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT

Administration Best Effort Myself Politics Time Try
We are imperfect. We cannot expect perfect government.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT

Expectation Government Imperfection
A man never knows exactly how the child of his brain will strike other people.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT

Brain Children Himself Man People
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.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT

Believe Divine Subscription
The truth is that in my present life I don’t remember that I ever was president.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT

Life Myself President Remember Truth
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.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT

Myself People President Profession Simplicity Talk Tired
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.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT

Court God Heaven Judgement Love
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.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT

Newspaper Sea Truth Worry Yourself
No, the only things which do not bother me are the elements. I can overcome them without a fight. All one has to do to get the best of the elements is to stand pat and one will win.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT

Element Fight Oneself Stand Win
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 TAFT

Beginning Exercise Impose Limitation Myself Power
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.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT

Feeling heavy Office Power Promise Responsibility
The true Mason is ever vigilant for subtle traces of character and personality flaws which daily experience brings out.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT

Bring Character Experience Flaw Personality Trace True
Substantial progress toward better things can rarely be taken without developing new evils requiring new remedies.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT

Better Development Progress Rare Remedy Requirement

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