“I know this, and I know it from actual experience in the Orient, that the progress of modern Christian civilization has largely depended on the earnest hard work of the Christian missions of every denomination.”
William Howard Taft
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“The personal touch between the people and the man to whom they temporarily delegated power of course conduces to a better understanding between them. Moreover, I ought not to omit to mention as a useful result of my journeying that I am to visit a great many expositions and fairs, and that the curiosity to see the President will certainly increase the box receipts and tend to rescue many commendable enterprises from financial disaster.”
William Howard Taft
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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
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“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
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“The scope of modern government in what it can and ought to accomplish for its people has been widened far beyond the principles laid down by the old “laissez faire” school of political rights, and the widening has met popular approval.”
William Howard Taft
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“Action for which I become responsible, or for which my administration becomes responsible, shall be within the law.”
William Howard Taft
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“We are all imperfect. We can not expect perfect government.”
William Howard Taft
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“The trouble with me is that I like to talk too much.”
William Howard Taft
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“Politics, when I am in it, it makes me sick.”
William Howard Taft
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