William Howard Taft Quotes

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• Too many people don't care what happens so long as it doesn't happen to them.

  William Howard Taft

  Long, People, Care

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• We must dare to be great; and we must realize that greatness is the fruit of toil and sacrifice and high courage.

  William Howard Taft

  Inspirational Life, Sacrifice, Greatness

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• We can't have a decent government unless those in power exercise self restraint.

  William Howard Taft

  Exercise, Government, Self

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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

  Strong, Thinking, People

  "Mr. Capone". Book by Robert J. Schoenberg, 1992.

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• Don't write so that you can be understood, write so that you can't be misunderstood.

  William Howard Taft

  Inspirational Life, Writing, Presidential

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Repeat mantra: Donuts are not vitamins, donuts are not.

  William Howard Taft

  Fitness, Presidential, Vitamins

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• We have a government of limited power under the Constitution, and we have got to work out our problems on the basis of law.

  William Howard Taft

  Government, Law, Work Out

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• Enthusiasm for a cause sometimes warps judgment.

  William Howard Taft

  Judgement, Enthusiasm, Causes

  William Howard Taft (1912*). “Peace, patriotic and religious addresses by President Taft: delivered during his administration”

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• I don't know whither we are drifting, but I do know where every real thinking patriot will stand in the end, and that's by the Constitution.

  William Howard Taft

  Real, Thinking, Patriotism

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• The world is not going to be saved by legislation.

  William Howard Taft

  Success, Presidential, World

  William Howard Taft, David Henry Burton (2009). “William Howard Taft: Essential Writings and Addresses”, p.126, Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

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• The cheerful loser is a sort of winner.

  William Howard Taft

  Cheerful, Loser, Winner

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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.

  William Howard Taft

  Rights, Play, Able

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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.

  William Howard Taft

  Winning, Men, Average

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• Presidents come and go, but the Supreme Court goes on forever.

  William Howard Taft

  Forever, President, Goes On

  "The Life and Times of William Howard Taft". Book by Henry F. Pringle, 1939.

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• I have come to the conclusion that the major part of the president is to increase the gate receipts of expositions and fairs and bring tourists to town.

  William Howard Taft

  Presidential, Towns, Tourists

  Letter of Archibald Butt to Clara F. Butt on June 01, 1909. "Taft and Roosevelt: The intimate letters of Archie Butt" by Archibald Willingham Butt, 1930.

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• We are all imperfect. We can not expect perfect government.

  William Howard Taft

  Government, Perfect, Can Not

  William Howard Taft (2002). “The Collected Works of William Howard Taft: Presidential addresses and state papers”

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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.

  William Howard Taft

  Taken, Character, Patriotic

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• The secret of Masonry, like the secret of life, can be known only by those who seek it, serve it, live it. It cannot be uttered; it can only be felt and acted. It is, in fact, an open secret, and each man knows it according to his quest and capacity. Like all things worth knowing, no one can know it for another and no man can know it alone.

  William Howard Taft

  Men, Dedication, Knowing

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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.

  William Howard Taft

  Exercise, Power, President

  William Howard Taft, David Henry Burton (2009). “William Howard Taft: Essential Writings and Addresses”, p.200, Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

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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.

  William Howard Taft

  Sound, Dollars, Strategy

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• Constitutions are checks upon the hasty action of the majority. They are the self-imposed restraints of a whole people upon a majority of them to secure sober action and a respect for the rights of the minority.

  William Howard Taft

  Rights, Self, People

  William Howard Taft, David Henry Burton (2002). “The Collected Works of William Howard Taft: Presidential messages to Congress”

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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.

  William Howard Taft

  New Day, Effort, Presidential

  William Howard Taft, William Taft “Popular Government: Its Essence, Its Permanence and Its Perils”, Transaction Publishers

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• A government is for the benefit of all the people.

  William Howard Taft

  Government, People, Benefits

  William Howard Taft (2004). “"Liberty Under Law" and Selected Supreme Court Opinions”, p.12, Ohio University Press

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• The trouble with me is that I like to talk too much.

  William Howard Taft

  Too Much, Trouble, Speakers

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Next to the right of liberty, the right of property is the most important individual right guaranteed by the Constitution . .

  William Howard Taft

  Presidential, Important, Liberty

  William Howard Taft, William Taft “Popular Government: Its Essence, Its Permanence and Its Perils”, Transaction Publishers

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