Repeat mantra: Donuts are not vitamins, donuts are not.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFTSocialism 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.
More William Howard Taft Quotes
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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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The true Mason always carries his working tools everywhere.
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The game of baseball is a clean, straight game, and it summons to its presence everybody who enjoys clean, straight athletics. It furnishes amusement to the thousands and thousands.
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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 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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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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Politics make me sick.
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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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Don’t write so that you can be understood, write so that you can’t be misunderstood.
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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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Action for which I become responsible, or for which my administration becomes responsible, shall be within the law.
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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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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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A system in which we may have an enforced rest from legislation for two years is not bad.
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Well, I have one consolation. No candidate was ever elected ex-president by such a large majority!
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