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 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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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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We passed the Children’s Bureau bill calculated to prevent children from being employed too early in factories.
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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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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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When the history of this period is written, [William Jennings] Bryan will stand out as one of the most remarkable men of his generation and one of the biggest political men of our country.
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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.
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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.
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I am glad to be going. This is the lonesomest pace in the world?
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The true Mason ever strives to cultivate Masonry in his/her life to the fullest degree possible.
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I am president now, and tired of being kicked around.
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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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We must dare to be great; and we must realize that greatness is the fruit of toil and sacrifice and high courage.
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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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The world is not going to be saved by legislation.
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Repeat mantra: Donuts are not vitamins, donuts are not.
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