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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.
— William Howard Taft
Well, I have one consolation. No candidate was ever elected ex-president by such a large majority!
— William Howard Taft
The true Mason's level of discernment increases with every use of the working tools, because the true Mason is ever working on him/her self.
— William Howard Taft
There is no "but" in it. The way to be an administration Senator is to vote with the Administration.
— William Howard Taft
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.
— William Howard Taft
I love judges, and I love courts. They are my ideals, that typify on earth what we shall meet hereafter in heaven under a just God.
— William Howard Taft
As the Republican platforms says, the welfare of the farmer is vital to that of the whole country.
— William Howard Taft
We, as Unitarians, may feel that the world is coming our way.
— William Howard Taft
A system in which we may have an enforced rest from legislation for two years is not bad.
— William Howard Taft
Failure to accord credit to anyone for what he may have done is a great weakness in any man.
— William Howard Taft
A government is for the benefit of all the people.
— William Howard Taft
Repeat mantra: Donuts are not vitamins, donuts are not ...
— William Howard Taft
We passed the Children's Bureau bill calculated to prevent children from being employed too early in factories.
— William Howard Taft
The true Mason is ever vigilant for subtle traces of character and personality flaws which daily experience brings out.
— William Howard Taft
There are a great many people who are in favor of conservation no matter what it means.
— William Howard Taft
Don't write so that you can be understood, write so that you can't be misunderstood.
— William Howard Taft
I think I might as well give up being a candidate. There are so many people in the country who don't like me.
— William Howard Taft
Substantial progress toward better things can rarely be taken without developing new evils requiring new remedies.
— William Howard Taft
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
The true Mason takes full responsibility for the condition of his character and ever strives for its perfection.
— William Howard Taft
I am in favor of helping the prosperity of all countries because, when we are all prosperous, the trade with each becomes more valuable to the other.
— William Howard Taft
The true Mason always carries his working tools everywhere.
— William Howard Taft
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
A man never knows exactly how the child of his brain will strike other people.
— William Howard Taft
I am glad to be going. This is the lonesomest pace in the world?
— William Howard Taft
Action for which I become responsible, or for which my administration becomes responsible, shall be within the law.
— William Howard Taft
No tendency is quite so strong in human nature as the desire to lay down rules of conduct for other people.
— William Howard Taft
Presidents come and go, but the Supreme Court goes on forever.
— William Howard Taft
The cheerful loser is a sort of winner.
— William Howard Taft
The City that knows how.
— William Howard Taft
Politics makes me sick.
— William Howard Taft
Anti-Semitism is a noxious weed that should be cut out. It has no place in America.
— William Howard Taft
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
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
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
We are all dependent upon the investment of capital.
— William Howard Taft
Too many people don't care what happens so long as it doesn't happen to them.
— William Howard Taft
I am going to do what I think is best for the country, within my jurisdiction and power, and then let the rest take care of itself.
— William Howard Taft
The precepts of the Gospel were universally the obligations of Masonry.
— William Howard Taft
The true Mason is the Tiler of the Temple of the Heart.
— William Howard Taft
I am afraid I am a constant disappointment to my party. The fact of the matter is, the longer I am president the less of a party man I seem to become.
— William Howard Taft
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.
— William Howard Taft
I am president now, and tired of being kicked around.
— William Howard Taft
The world is not going to be saved by legislation.
— William Howard Taft
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.
— William Howard Taft
Politics, when I am in it, it makes me sick.
— William Howard Taft
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
The trouble with me is that I like to talk too much.
— William Howard Taft
Enthusiasm for a cause sometimes warps judgement.
— William Howard Taft
The truth is that in my present life I don't remember that I ever was president
— William Howard Taft
Someone threw a cabbage at William Howard Taft. That didn't bother Taft. He quipped, "I see that one of my adversaries has lost his head.
— Judith St. George
The true Mason ever strives to cultivate Masonry in his/her life to the fullest degree possible.
— William Howard Taft
Politics make me sick
— William Howard Taft
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
We are all imperfect. We can not expect perfect government.
— William Howard Taft
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
The true Mason never hesitates to use the working tools to correct personal flaws.
— William Howard Taft