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.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFTIn 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.
More William Howard Taft Quotes
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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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Presidents come and go, but the Supreme Court goes on forever.
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We are all imperfect. We can not expect perfect government.
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Politics, when I am in it, makes me sick.
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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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I am glad to be going. This is the lonesomest pace in the world?
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The laboring man and the trade-unionist, if I understand him, asks only equality before the law. Class legislation and unequal privilege, though expressly in his favor, will in the end work no benefit to him or to society.
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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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I think I might as well give up being a candidate. There are so many people in the country who don’t like me.
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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 true Mason never hesitates to use the working tools to correct personal flaws.
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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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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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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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The world is not going to be saved by legislation.
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