I think I might as well give up being a candidate. There are so many people in the country who don’t like 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 am president now, and tired of being kicked around.
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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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A system in which we may have an enforced rest from legislation for two years is not bad.
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A man never knows exactly how the child of his brain will strike other people.
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The true Mason takes full responsibility for the condition of his character and ever strives for its perfection.
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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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The cheerful loser is a sort of winner.
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The game of baseball is a clean, straight game.
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Repeat mantra: Donuts are not vitamins, donuts are not.
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What I am anxious to do is to secure my legislation…. What I want to do is to get through that, and if I can point to a record of usefulness of that kind, I am entirely willing to quit office.
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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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The true Mason always carries his working tools everywhere.
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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 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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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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