52 ordspråk av William Howard Taft
William Howard Taft
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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Nobody ever drops in for the evening.
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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.
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Politics makes me sick.
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Politics, when I am in it, it makes me sick.
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Presidents come and go, but the Supreme Court goes on forever.
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Presidents come and go, but the Supreme Court goes on forever.
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Presidents may go to the seashore or to the mountains. Cabinet officers may go about the country explaining how fortunate the country is in having such an administration, but the machinery at Washington continues to operate under the army of faithful non-commissioned officers, and the great mass of governmental business is uninterrupted.
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Socialism proposes no adequate substitute for the motive of enlightened selfishness that to-day is at the basis of all human labor and effort, enterprise and new activity.
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Substantial progress toward better things can rarely be taken without developing new evils requiring new remedies.
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The cheerful loser is a sort of winner.
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The diplomacy of the present administration has sought to respond to modern ideas of commercial intercourse. This policy has been characterized as substituting dollars for bullets. It is one that appeals alike to idealistic humanitarian sentiments, to the dictates of sound policy and strategy, and to legitimate commercial aims.
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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
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The President can exercise no power which cannot be fairly and reasonably traced to some specific grant of power . . . in the Federal Constitution or in an act of Congress passed in pursuance thereof. There is no undefined residuum of power which he can exercise because it seems to him to be in the public interest.
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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
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