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.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFTThe true Mason never hesitates to use the working tools to correct personal flaws.
More William Howard Taft Quotes
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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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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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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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The true Mason takes full responsibility for the condition of his character and ever strives for its perfection.
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The diplomacy of the present administration has sought to respond to the modern idea of commercial intercourse. This policy has been characterized as substituting dollars for bullets.
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Politics, when I am in it, makes me sick.
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A government is for the benefit of all the people.
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There are a great many people who are in favor of conservation no matter what it means.
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The policy of dollar diplomacy is one that appeals alike to idealistic humanitarian sentiments, to dictates of sound policy, and strategy, and to legitimate commercial aims.
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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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The trouble with me is that I like to talk too much.
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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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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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We are all dependent upon the investment of capital.
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A man never knows exactly how the child of his brain will strike other people.
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