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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.
William Howard Taft
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William Howard Taft
Age: 72 †
Born: 1857
Born: September 15
Died: 1930
Died: March 8
27Th U.S. President
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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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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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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.
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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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Anti-Semitism is a noxious weed that should be cut out. It has no place in America.
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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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Action for which I become responsible, or for which my administration becomes responsible, shall be within the law.
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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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The underlying principle of Masonry is the fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man. In this war we are engaging in upholding these principles and our enemies are attacking them.
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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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The policy of dollar diplomacy is one that appeals alike to idealistic humanitarian sentiments, to dictates of sound policy, and strategy, and to legitimate commercial aims.
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The trouble with me is that I like to talk too much.
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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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We, as Unitarians, may feel that the world is coming our way.
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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'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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