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.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFTWe live in a stage of politics, where legislators seem to regard the passage of laws as much more important than the results of their enforcement.
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A man never knows exactly how the child of his brain will strike other people.
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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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I am afraid I am a constant disappointment to my party. The fact of the matter is, the longer I am President the less of a party man I seem to become.
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The trouble with me is that I like to talk too much.
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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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The true Mason ever strives to cultivate Masonry in his/her life to the fullest degree possible.
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The cheerful loser is a sort of winner.
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The game of baseball is a clean, straight game.
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Constitutions are checks upon the hasty action of the majority. They are the self-imposed restraints of a whole people upon a majority of them to secure sober action and a respect for the rights of the minority.
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Presidents come and go, but the Supreme Court goes on forever.
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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 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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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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I am in favor of helping the prosperity of all countries because, when we are all prosperous, the trade with each becomes more valuable to the other.
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Substantial progress toward better things can rarely be taken without developing new evils requiring new remedies.
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