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“Enthusiasm for a cause sometimes warps judgment.”
-- William Howard Taft

#Judgement #Enthusiasm #Causes
“The City that knows how.”
-- William Howard Taft

#Cities #San Francisco
“Presidents come and go, but the Supreme Court goes on forever.”
-- William Howard Taft

#Forever #President #Goes On
“Substantial progress toward better things can rarely be taken without developing new evils requiring new remedies.”
-- William Howard Taft

#Taken #Evil #Progress
“The world is not going to be saved by legislation.”
-- William Howard Taft

#Success #Presidential #World
“We are all imperfect. We can not expect perfect government.”
-- William Howard Taft

#Government #Perfect #Imperfect
“Don't write so that you can be understood, write so that you can't be misunderstood.”
-- William Howard Taft

#Inspirational Life #Writing #Presidential
“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
“Lawyers are necessary in a community. Some of you...take a different view; but as I am a member of that legal profession, or was at one time, and have only lost standing in it to become a politician, I still retain the pride of the profession. And I still insist that it is the law and the lawyer that make popular government under a written constitution and written statutes possible..”
-- William Howard Taft

#Pride #Government #Views
“We are imperfect. We cannot expect perfect government.”
-- William Howard Taft

#Government #Perfect #Imperfect
“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.”
-- William Howard Taft

#Golf #Men #Self
“A government is for the benefit of all the people.”
-- William Howard Taft

#Government #People #Benefits
“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.”
-- William Howard Taft

#Believe #Religion #Atheism
“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.”
-- William Howard Taft

#Race #Civilization #Presidential
“Anti-Semitism is a noxious weed that should be cut out. It has no place in America.”
-- William Howard Taft

#Weed #Cutting #America
“We live in a stage of politics, where legislators seem to regard the passage of laws as much more important than the results of their enforcement.”
-- William Howard Taft

#Law #Presidential #Important
“Masonry aims at the promotion of morality and higher living by the cultivation of the social side of man, the rousing in him of the instincts of charity and love of his kind. It rests surely on the foundation of the brotherhood of man and the fatherhood of God.”
-- William Howard Taft

#Men #Brotherhood #Fatherhood
“As the Republican platforms says, the welfare of the farmer is vital to that of the whole country.”
-- William Howard Taft

#Country #Republican #Welfare
“I am president now, and tired of being kicked around.”
-- William Howard Taft

#Tired #President
“The Masonic system represents a stupendous and beautiful fabric, founded on universal purity, to rule and direct our passions, to have faith and love in God, and charity toward man.”
-- William Howard Taft

#Beautiful #Passion #Men
“When the history of this period is written, [William Jennings] Bryan will stand out as one of the most remarkable men of his generation and one of the biggest political men of our country.”
-- William Howard Taft

#Country #Men #Political
“I prefer an income tax, but the truth is I am afraid of the discussion which will follow and the criticism which will ensue if there is an other division in the Supreme Court on the subject of the income tax. Nothing has injured the prestige of the Supreme Court more than that last decision, and I think that many of the most violent advocates of the income tax will be glad of the substitution in their hearts for the same reasons. I am going to push the Constitutional amendment, which will admit an income tax without questions, but I am afraid of it without such an amendment.”
-- William Howard Taft

#Heart #Thinking #Decision
“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.”
-- William Howard Taft

#Fighting #Winning #Elements
“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
“Take away from the courts, if it could be taken away, the power to issue injunctions in labor disputes, and it would create a privileged class among the laborers and save the lawless among their number from a most needful remedy available to all men for the protection of their business interests against unlawful invasion.... The secondary boycott is an instrument of tyranny, and ought not to be made legitimate.”
-- William Howard Taft

#Taken #Men #Class
“He [Roosevelt] has made some speeches that indicate that he is going quite beyond anything that he advocated when he was in the White House, and has proposed a program which is absolutely impossible to carry out except by a revision of the Constitution.”
-- William Howard Taft

#White #House #Speech
“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
“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.”
-- William Howard Taft

#Men #Chance #He Man
“What I am anxious to do is to get the best bill possible with the least amount of friction.... I wish to avoid [splitting our party]. I shall do all in my power to retain the corporation tax as it is now and also force a reduction of the [tariff] schedules. It is only when all other efforts fail that I'll resort to headlines and force the people into this fight.”
-- William Howard Taft

#Party #Fighting #People
“The prosperity of Masonry as a means of strengthening our religion and propagating true brotherly love, is one of the dearest wishes of my heart, which, I trust, will be gratified by the help of the Grand Architect of the Universe.”
-- William Howard Taft

#Heart #Mean #Love Is

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