Top 30 William H Taft Quotes
#1. 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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#2. 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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#3. 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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#5. 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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#6. 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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#7. 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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#8. The true Mason is ever vigilant for subtle traces of character and personality flaws which daily experience brings out.
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#9. Too many people don't care what happens so long as it doesn't happen to them.
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#10. The true Mason ever strives to cultivate Masonry in his/her life to the fullest degree possible.
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#11. The true Mason does not hold or teach the attitude that, I am a Master Mason now and thus I no longer need to be concerned with using the working tools because they were given in the earlier degrees.
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#13. Rules of conduct which govern men in their relations to one another are being applied in an ever-increasing degree to nations. The battlefield as a place of settlement of disputes is gradually yielding to arbitral courts of justice.
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#14. Well, I have one consolation. No candidate was ever elected ex-president by such a large majority!
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#15. We have passed the time of ... the laisser-faire [sic] school which believes that the government ought to do nothing but run a police force.
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#16. 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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#17. The true Mason takes full responsibility for the condition of his character and ever strives for its perfection.
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#18. 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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#21. 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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#23. 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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#24. Substantial progress toward better things can rarely be taken without developing new evils requiring new remedies.
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#25. 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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#26. Socialism 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.
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#27. 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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#28. The Government is able to afford a suitable army and a suitable navy. It may maintain them without the slightest danger to the Republic or the cause of free institutions, and fear of additional taxation ought not to change a proper policy in this regard.
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#29. 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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#30. There is not a subject in which I take a deeper interest than I do in the development of Alaska, and I propose, if Congress will follow by recommendations, to do something in that territory that will make it move on.
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