The game of baseball is a clean, straight game.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFTGolf 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.
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Next to the right of liberty, the right of property is the most important individual right guaranteed by the Constitution . .
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The true Mason ever strives to cultivate Masonry in his/her life to the fullest degree possible.
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Don’t worry over what the newspapers say. I don’t. Why should anyone else? I told the truth to the newspaper correspondents – but when you tell the truth to them they are at sea.
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Substantial progress toward better things can rarely be taken without developing new evils requiring new remedies.
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A man never knows exactly how the child of his brain will strike other people.
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Presidents come and go, but the Supreme Court goes on forever.
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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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No, the only things which do not bother me are the elements. I can overcome them without a fight. All one has to do to get the best of the elements is to stand pat and one will win.
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There are a great many people who are in favor of conservation no matter what it means.
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What I am anxious to do is to secure my legislation…. What I want to do is to get through that, and if I can point to a record of usefulness of that kind, I am entirely willing to quit office.
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Enthusiasm for a cause sometimes warps judgment.
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A system in which we may have an enforced rest from legislation for two years is not bad.
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Too many people don’t care what happens so long as it doesn’t happen to them.
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We passed the Children’s Bureau bill calculated to prevent children from being employed too early in factories.
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We must dare to be great; and we must realize that greatness is the fruit of toil and sacrifice and high courage.
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Repeat mantra: Donuts are not vitamins, donuts are not.
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There is nothing so despicable as a secret society that is based upon religious prejudice and that will attempt to defeat a man because of his religious beliefs. Such a society is like a cockroach – it thrives in the dark. So do those who combine for such an end.
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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.
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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 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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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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My impression about the Panama Canal is that the great revolution it is going to introduce in the trade of the world is in the trade between the east and the west coast of the United States.
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I do not know much about politics, but I am trying to do the best I can with this administration until the time shall come for me to turn it over to somebody else.
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We are all imperfect. We can not expect perfect government.
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We are all dependent upon the investment of capital.
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If they will play fair I will play fair, but if they won’t then I reserve all my rights to do anything I find myself able to do.
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