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• 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

  Disappointment, Party, President

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

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• 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

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• The truth is, the whole administration under Roosevelt was demoralized by the system of dealing directly with subordinates. It wasobviated in the State Department and the War Department under [Secretary of State Elihu] Root and me [Taft was the Secretary of War], because we simply ignored the interference and went on as we chose.... The subordinates gained nothing by his assumption of authority, but it was not so in the other departments.

  William Howard Taft

  War, Roots, Taft

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• I think it is a wise course for laborers to unite to defend their interests.... I think the employer who declines to deal with organized labor and to recognize it as a proper element in the settlement of wage controversies is behind the times.... Of course, when organized labor permits itself to sympathize with violent methods or undue duress, it is not entitled to our sympathy.

  William Howard Taft

  Wise, Thinking, Elements

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• I am president now, and tired of being kicked around.

  William Howard Taft

  Tired, President

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

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• It is not impossible, of course, after such an administration as Roosevelt's and after the change in method that I could not but adapt in view of my different way of looking at things, that questions should arise as to whether I should go back on the principles of the Roosevelt administration.... I have a government of limited power under a Constitution, and we have got to work out our problems on the basis of law. Now, if that is reactionary, then I am a reactionary.

  William Howard Taft

  Government, Views, Law

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• The City that knows how.

  William Howard Taft

  Cities, San Francisco, Know How

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• I know how irritating it is to have somebody else lay down rules for your moral uplift, but you've got to stand a great deal in order to make progress.

  William Howard Taft

  Uplifting, Order, Progress

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• 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

  Tired, People, President

  "Taft and Roosevelt: The intimate letters of Archie Butt". Book by Archibald Willingham Butt, 1930.

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• The President cannot make clouds to rain and cannot make the corn to grow. He cannot make business good, although when these things occur, political parties do claim some credit for the good things that have happened in this way

  William Howard Taft

  Party, Rain, Clouds

  William Howard Taft, David Henry Burton (2009). “William Howard Taft: Essential Writings and Addresses”, p.150, Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

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• 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 press, as well as the kindly suggestions that not infrequently come from Congress.

  William Howard Taft

  Presidential, Suggestions, Restriction

  Speech to the Lotus Club, November 16, 1912.

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• 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

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• The development of the doctrine of international arbitration, considered from the standpoint of its ultimate benefits to the human race, is the most vital movement of modern times. In its relation to the well-being of the men and women of this and ensuing generations, it exceeds in importance the proper solution of various economic problems which are constant themes of legislative discussion and enactment.

  William Howard Taft

  Men, Race, Arbitration

  "Dawn of World Peace", in U.S. Bureau of Education Bulletin, No. 8, 1912.

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• The truth is that in my present life I don't remember that I ever was president.

  William Howard Taft

  President, Remember, Truth Is

  Correspondence in 1925. "1912: Wilson, Roosevelt, Taft and Debs - The Election that Changed the Country". Book by James Chace, 2004.

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• As a people, we have the problem of making our forests outlast this generation, or iron outlast this century, and our coal the next; not merely as a matter of convenience or comfort, but as a matter of stern necessity.

  William Howard Taft

  Iron, People, Matter

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• One cannot always be sure of the truth of what one hears if he happens to be President of the United States.

  William Howard Taft

  President, United States, Happens

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• 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

  Country, Giving Up, Thinking

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

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• The diplomacy of the present administration has sought to respond to the modern idea of commercial intercourse. This policy has been characterized as substituting dollars for bullets.

  William Howard Taft

  Ideas, Bullets, Administration

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

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• We should have an army so organized and so officered as to be capable in time of emergency, in cooperation with the National Militia, and under the provision of a proper national volunteer law, rapidly to expand into a force sufficient to resist all probable invasion from abroad and to furnish a respectable expeditionary force if necessary in the maintenance of our traditional American policy which bears the name of President Monroe.

  William Howard Taft

  Army, Should Have, Law

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• Politics make me sick

  William Howard Taft

  Wisdom, Witty, Sick

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• 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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• 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

  Humor, Race, People

  "Irish Humor". Address in Hot Springs, Virginia, August 05, 1908.

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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

  Exercise, Power, May

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• We passed the Children's Bureau bill calculated to prevent children from being employed too early in factories.

  William Howard Taft

  Children, Bills, Child Labor

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• 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

  Quoted in Michael Hobbs The Golf Quotation Book (1992).

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