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We can't have a decent government unless those in power exercise self restraint.
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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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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No, the only things which do not bother me are the elements. I can overcome them without a fight. All one has to do to get the best of the elements is to stand pat and one will win.
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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 truth is that in my present life I don't remember that I ever was president.
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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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I know this, and I know it from actual experience in the Orient, that the progress of modern Christian civilization has largely depended on the earnest hard work of the Christian missions of every denomination.
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The judiciary has fallen to a very low state in this country. I think your part of the country has suffered especially. The federal judges of the South are a disgrace to any country, and I'll be damned if I put any man on the bench of whose character and ability there is the least doubt.
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I don't know the man I admire more than [Charles Evans] Hughes. If ever I have the chance I shall offer him the Chief Justiceship.
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A man never knows exactly how the child of his brain will strike other people.
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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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What I am anxious to do is to secure my legislation.... What I want to do is to get through that, and if I can point to a record of usefulness of that kind, I am entirely willing to quit office.
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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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Too many people don't care what happens so long as it doesn't happen to them.
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I wish to reiterate all the reasons which [my predecessor] has presented in favor of the policy of maintaining a strong navy as the best conservator of our peace with other nations and the best means of securing respect for the assertion of our rights of the defense of our interests, and the exercise of our influence in international matters.
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I am president now, and tired of being kicked around.
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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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That all may be so, but when I begin to exercise that power I am not conscious of the power, but only of the limitations imposed on me.
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A government is for the benefit of all the people.
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Well, I have one consolation. No candidate was ever elected ex-president by such a large majority!
William Howard Taft
The true Mason is the Tiler of the Temple of the Heart.
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