If they will play fair I will play fair, but if they won’t then I reserve all my rights to do anything I find myself able to do.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFTThat 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.
More William Howard Taft Quotes
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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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We, as Unitarians, may feel that the world is coming our way.
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The true Mason’s level of discernment increases with every use of the working tools, because the true Mason is ever working on him/her self.
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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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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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I am afraid I am a constant disappointment to my party. The fact of the matter is, the longer I am President the less of a party man I seem to become.
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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 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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Well, I have one consolation. No candidate was ever elected ex-president by such a large majority!
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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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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 are all imperfect. We can not expect perfect government.
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The man with the average mentality, but with control, with a definite goal, and a clear conception of how it can be gained, and above all, with the power of application and labor, wins in the end.
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Next to the right of liberty, the right of property is the most important individual right guaranteed by the Constitution . .
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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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