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.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFTWell, I have one consolation. No candidate was ever elected ex-president by such a large majority!
More William Howard Taft Quotes
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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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The precepts of the Gospel were universally the obligations of Masonry.
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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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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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I know how irritating it is to have somebody else lay down rules for your moral uplift, but you’ve got to stand a great deal in order to make progress.
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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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The true Mason ever strives to cultivate Masonry in his/her life to the fullest degree possible.
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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.
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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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As the Republican platforms says, the welfare of the farmer is vital to that of the whole country.
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The true Mason is ever vigilant for subtle traces of character and personality flaws which daily experience brings out.
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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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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 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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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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