Recent, severe increases in gasoline prices in my state are, to say the least, baffling. Our citizens are demanding, if not complete answers, at least some rational justification for this dramatic price increase.


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I have come to the conclusion that the major part of the work of a President is to increase the gate...
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT
If this humor be the safety of our race, then it is due largely to the infusion into the American pe...
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT
Presidents may go to the seashore or to the mountains. Cabinet officers may go about the country exp...
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT
The Lord works from the inside out. The world works from the outside in. The world would take people...
EZRA TAFT BENSON
I love judges, and I love courts. They are my ideals, that typify on earth what we shall meet hereaf...
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT
No tendency is quite so strong in human nature as the desire to lay down rules of conduct for other ...
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT
Presidents come and go, but the Supreme Court goes on forever.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT
There is nothing so despicable as a secret society that is based upon religious prejudice and that w...
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT
I do not believe in the divinity of Christ, and there are many other of the postulates of the orthod...
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT
As a people, we have the problem of making our forests outlast this generation, or iron outlast this...
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT
The diplomacy of the present administration has sought to respond to modern ideas of commercial inte...
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT
The Book of Mormon is the 'keystone' of our religion, and the Doctrine and Covenants is the ...
EZRA TAFT BENSON
I challenge the homes of Israel to display on their walls great quotations and scenes from the Book ...
EZRA TAFT BENSON
A young woman who knows and loves the Book of Mormon, who has read it several times, who has an abid...
EZRA TAFT BENSON
A young man who knows and loves the Book of Mormon, who has read it several times, who has an abidin...
EZRA TAFT BENSON
We can choose to humble ourselves by conquering enmity toward our brothers and sisters, esteeming th...
EZRA TAFT BENSON
The central feature of pride is enmity—enmity toward God and enmity toward our fellowmen. Enmity m...
EZRA TAFT BENSON
You are free to choose, but you are not free to alter the consequences of your decisions.
EZRA TAFT BENSON
The great task of life is to learn the will of the Lord and then do it.
EZRA TAFT BENSON
Most of us think of pride as self-centeredness, conceit, boastfulness, arrogance, or haughtiness. Al...
EZRA TAFT BENSON
The proud wish God would agree with them. They are not interested in changing their opinions to agre...
EZRA TAFT BENSON
True repentance involves a change of heart and not just a change of behavior.
EZRA TAFT BENSON
Pride is concerned with who is right. Humility is concerned with what is right.
EZRA TAFT BENSON
Men and women who turn their lives over to God will discover that He can make a lot more out of thei...
EZRA TAFT BENSON
The tenth plank in Karl Marx's Manifesto for destroying our kind of civilization advocated the estab...
EZRA TAFT BENSON
No man is truly educated unless he knows where he came from, why he is here, and where he can expect...
EZRA TAFT BENSON
Don't worry over what the newspapers say. I don't. Why should anyone else? I told the truth ...
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT
Rights are either God-given as part of the divine plan, or they are granted by government as part of...
EZRA TAFT BENSON
Now, brethren, do not expect perfection in your choice of a mate. Do not be so particular that you o...
EZRA TAFT BENSON
Pride adversely affects all our relationships—our relationship with God and His servants, between ...
EZRA TAFT BENSON
In the scriptures there is no such thing as righteous pride—it is always considered a sin. Therefo...
EZRA TAFT BENSON
The cheerful loser is a sort of winner.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT
The intoxication of power rapidly sobers off in the knowledge of its restrictions and under the prom...
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT
The President cannot make clouds to rain and cannot make the corn to grow, he cannot make business g...
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT
Don't write so that you can be understood, write so that you can't be misunderstood.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT
The President can exercise no power which cannot be fairly and reasonably traced to some specific gr...
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT
[George] Washington intended this to be a Federal city, and it is a Federal city, and it tingles dow...
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT
There is only one thing I want to say about Ohio that has a political tinge, and that is that I thin...
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT
The Book of Mormon, the record of Joseph, verifies and clarifies the Bible. It removes stumbling blo...
EZRA TAFT BENSON