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Government Quotes by William Howard Taft
- We are imperfect. We cannot expect perfect government.
- We have a government of limited power under the Constitution, and we have got to work out our problems on the basis of law.
- A government is for the benefit of all the people.
- We are all imperfect. We can not expect perfect government.
- 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…
- 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.
- The world is not going to be saved by legislation.
- George Washington intended this to be a Federal city, and it is a Federal city, and it tingles down to the feet of every man,…
- I look forward with hope to increasing the already good feeling between the South andthe other sections of the country. My chief purpose is not…
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