Substantial progress toward better things can rarely be taken without developing new evils requiring new remedies.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFTNext to the right of liberty, the right of property is the most important individual right guaranteed by the Constitution . .
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That all may be so, but when I begin to exercise that power I am not conscious of the power, but only of the limitations imposed on me.
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I don’t know whither we are drifting, but I do know where every real thinking patriot will stand in the end, and that’s by the Constitution.
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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 game of baseball is a clean, straight game, and it summons to its presence everybody who enjoys clean, straight athletics. It furnishes amusement to the thousands and thousands.
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We shall have to begin all over again. [Taft hoped that] the Senators might change their minds, or that the people might change the Senate; instead of which they changed me.
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I have come to the conclusion that the major part of the president is to increase the gate receipts of expositions and fairs and bring tourists to town.
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The true Mason does not hold or teach the attitude that, I am a Master Mason now and thus I no longer need to be concerned with using the working tools because they were given in the earlier degrees.
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The true Mason takes full responsibility for the condition of his character and ever strives for its perfection.
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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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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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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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There are a great many people who are in favor of conservation no matter what it means.
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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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The game of baseball is a clean, straight game.
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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.
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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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The true Mason ever strives to cultivate Masonry in his/her life to the fullest degree possible.
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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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A system in which we may have an enforced rest from legislation for two years is not bad.
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The laboring man and the trade-unionist, if I understand him, asks only equality before the law. Class legislation and unequal privilege, though expressly in his favor, will in the end work no benefit to him or to society.
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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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Anti-Semitism is a noxious weed that should be cut out. It has no place in America.
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The diplomacy of the present administration has sought to respond to the modern idea of commercial intercourse. This policy has been characterized as substituting dollars for bullets.
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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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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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As the Republican platforms says, the welfare of the farmer is vital to that of the whole country.
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