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.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFTThe 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.
More William Howard Taft Quotes
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I am in favor of helping the prosperity of all countries because, when we are all prosperous, the trade with each becomes more valuable to the other.
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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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Repeat mantra: Donuts are not vitamins, donuts are not.
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No tendency is quite so strong in human nature as the desire to lay down rules of conduct for other people.
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In 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.
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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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We live in a stage of politics, where legislators seem to regard the passage of laws as much more important than the results of their enforcement.
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The trouble with me is that I like to talk too much.
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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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As the Republican platforms says, the welfare of the farmer is vital to that of the whole country.
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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.
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The true Mason always carries his working tools everywhere.
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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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A man never knows exactly how the child of his brain will strike other people.
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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.
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