Best Quotes by William Howard Taft (Top 10)
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Enthusiasm for a cause sometimes warps judgment.
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Presidents come and go, but the Supreme Court goes on forever.
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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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Unless education promotes character making, unless it helps men to be more moral, more just to their fellows, more law abiding, more discriminatingly patriotic and public spirited, it is not worth the trouble taken to furnish it.
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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 world is not going to be saved by legislation.
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No tendency is quite so strong in human nature as the desire to lay down rules of conduct for other people.
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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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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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We are all imperfect. We can not expect perfect government.
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More William Howard Taft Quotes
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The cheerful loser is a sort of winner.
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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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The President can exercise no power which cannot be fairly and reasonably traced to some specific grant of power in the Federal Constitution or in an act of Congress passed in pursuance thereof. There is no undefined residuum of power which he can exercise because it seems to him to be in the public interest.
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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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As the Republican platforms says, the welfare of the farmer is vital to that of the whole country.
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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'll be damned if I am not getting tired of this. It seems to be the profession of a President simply to hear other people talk.
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The trouble with me is that I like to talk too much.
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Next to the right of liberty, the right of property is the most important individual right guaranteed by the Constitution and the one which, united with that of personal liberty, has contributed more to the growth of civilization than any other institution established by the human race.
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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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There is only one thing I wast to say about Ohio that has a political tinge, and that is that I think a mistake has been made of recent years in Ohio in failing to continue as our representatives the same people term after term. I do not need to tell a Washington audience, among whom there are certainly some who have been interested in legislation, that length of service in the House and in the Senate is what gives influence.
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