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Presidential Quotes by William Howard Taft
- 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…
- I am glad to be going. This is the lonesomest pace in the world?
- The intoxication of power rapidly sobers off in the knowledge of its restrictions and under the prompt reminder of an ever-present and not always considerate…
- Next to the right of liberty, the right of property is the most important individual right guaranteed by the Constitution . .
- Politics make me sick
- There is nothing so despicable as a secret society that is based upon religious prejudice and that will attempt to defeat a man because of…
- 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…
- Repeat mantra: Donuts are not vitamins, donuts are not...
- Anyone who has taken the oath I have just taken must feel a heavy weight of responsibility. If not, he has no conception of the…
- The world is not going to be saved by legislation.
- Don't write so that you can be understood, write so that you can't be misunderstood.
- 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…
- Anti-Semitism is a noxious weed that should be cut out. It has no place in 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…
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