I am president now, and tired of being kicked around.
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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The President cannot make clouds to rain and cannot make the corn to grow. He cannot make business good, although when these things occur, political parties do claim some credit for the good things that have happened in this way
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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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We are imperfect. We cannot expect perfect government.
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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 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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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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Well, I have one consolation. No candidate was ever elected ex-president by such a large majority!
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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.
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A man never knows exactly how the child of his brain will strike other people.
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Substantial progress toward better things can rarely be taken without developing new evils requiring new remedies.
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The precepts of the Gospel were universally the obligations of Masonry.
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The cheerful loser is a sort of winner.
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The true Mason always carries his working tools everywhere.
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I do not believe in the divinity of Christ, and there are many other of the postulates of the orthodox creed to which I cannot subscribe.
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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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