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 TAFTAs the Republican platforms says, the welfare of the farmer is vital to that of the whole country.
More William Howard Taft Quotes
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I don’t know the man I admire more than [Charles Evans] Hughes. If ever I have the chance I shall offer him the Chief Justiceship.
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If this humor be the safety of our race, then it is due largely to the infusion into the American people of the Irish brain.
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Enthusiasm for a cause sometimes warps judgment.
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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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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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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.
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Too many people don’t care what happens so long as it doesn’t happen to them.
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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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We passed the Children’s Bureau bill calculated to prevent children from being employed too early in factories.
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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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The cheerful loser is a sort of winner.
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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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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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A man never knows exactly how the child of his brain will strike other people.
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