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.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFTIf 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.
More William Howard Taft Quotes
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The true Mason always carries his working tools everywhere.
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I have come to the conclusion that the major part of the president is to increase the gate receipts of expositions and fairs and bring tourists to town.
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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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There are a great many people who are in favor of conservation no matter what it means.
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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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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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The true Mason never hesitates to use the working tools to correct personal flaws.
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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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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 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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If this humor be the safety of our race, then it is due largely to the infusion into the American people of the Irish brain.
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We must dare to be great; and we must realize that greatness is the fruit of toil and sacrifice and high courage.
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The laboring man and the trade-unionist, if I understand him, asks only equality before the law. Class legislation and unequal privilege, though expressly in his favor, will in the end work no benefit to him or to society.
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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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Politics, when I am in it, makes me sick.
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