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.
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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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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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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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 true Mason always carries his working tools everywhere.
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We are imperfect. We cannot expect perfect government.
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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 am glad to be going. This is the lonesomest pace in the world?
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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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As the Republican platforms says, the welfare of the farmer is vital to that of the whole country.
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I know this, and I know it from actual experience in the Orient, that the progress of modern Christian civilization has largely depended on the earnest hard work of the Christian missions of every denomination.
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The Masonic system represents a stupendous and beautiful fabric, founded on universal purity, to rule and direct our passions, to have faith and love in God, and charity toward man.
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Repeat mantra: Donuts are not vitamins, donuts are not.
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Enthusiasm for a cause sometimes warps judgment.
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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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We, as Unitarians, may feel that the world is coming our way.
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I am president now, and tired of being kicked around.
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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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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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Anti-Semitism is a noxious weed that should be cut out. It has no place in America.
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I don’t know whither we are drifting, but I do know where every real thinking patriot will stand in the end, and that’s by the Constitution.
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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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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.
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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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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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A government is for the benefit of all the people.
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