William Howard Taft

President

1857-09-15

Books by William Howard Taft

The United States and peace
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Four aspects of civic duty
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The Anti-trust act and the Supreme Court
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Quotes by William Howard Taft

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.
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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.
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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.
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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 new activity.
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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.
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Substantial progress toward better things can rarely be taken without developing new evils requiring new remedies.
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Presidents come and go, but the Supreme Court goes on forever.
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No tendency is quite so strong in human nature as the desire to lay down rules of conduct for other people.
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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.
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The day is not far distant when three Stars and Stripes at three equidistant points will mark our territory: one at the North Pole, another at the Panama Canal, and the third at the South Pole. The whole hemisphere will be ours in fact as, by virtue of our superiority of race, it already is ours morally.
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Failure to accord credit to anyone for what he may have done is a great weakness in any man.
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Anti-Semitism is a noxious weed that should be cut out. It has no place in America.
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As the Republican platforms says, the welfare of the farmer is vital to that of the whole country.
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Don't write so that you can be understood, write so that you can't be misunderstood.
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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
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Enthusiasm for a cause sometimes warps judgment.
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