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One cannot always be sure of the truth of what one hears if he happens to be President of the United States.
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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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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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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Substantial progress toward better things can rarely be taken without developing new evils requiring new remedies.
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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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It gives me the greatest pleasure to say, as I do from the bottom of my heart, that never in the history of the country, in any crisis and under any conditions, have our Jewish fellow citizens failed to live up to the highest standards of citizenship and patriotism.
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I would like to have an ample fund to spread the light of Republicanism, but I am willing to undergo the disadvantage to make certain that in the future we shall reduce the power of money in politics for unworthy purposes.
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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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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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A government is for the benefit of all the 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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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 cheerful loser is a sort of winner.
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