There is nothing so despicable as a secret society that is based upon religious prejudice and that will attempt to defeat a man because of his religious beliefs. Such a society is like a cockroach – it thrives in the dark. So do those who combine for such an end.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFTThe 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.
More William Howard Taft Quotes
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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 precepts of the Gospel were universally the obligations of Masonry.
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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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A man never knows exactly how the child of his brain will strike other people.
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We are all dependent upon the investment of capital.
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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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Don’t write so that you can be understood, write so that you can’t be misunderstood.
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The true Mason always carries his working tools everywhere.
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Golf in the interest of good health and good manners. It promotes self-restraint and affords a chance to play the man and act the gentleman.
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Enthusiasm for a cause sometimes warps judgment.
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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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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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We are imperfect. We cannot expect perfect government.
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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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As the Republican platforms says, the welfare of the farmer is vital to that of the whole country.
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