As the Republican platforms says, the welfare of the farmer is vital to that of the whole country.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFTThe 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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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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Presidents come and go, but the Supreme Court goes on forever.
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Socialism proposes no adequate substitute for the motive of enlightened selfishness that today is at the basis of all human labor and effort, enterprise and new activity.
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I love judges, and I love courts. They are my ideals, that typify on earth what we shall meet hereafter in heaven under a just God.
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We can’t have a decent government unless those in power exercise self restraint.
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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 don’t know the man I admire more than [Charles Evans] Hughes. If ever I have the chance I shall offer him the Chief Justiceship.
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I think his greatest fault is his failure to accord credit to anyone for what he may have done. This is a great weakness in any man.
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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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A system in which we may have an enforced rest from legislation for two years is not bad.
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Anyone who has taken the oath I have just taken must feel a heavy weight of responsibility. If not, he has no conception of the powers and duties of the office.
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The game of baseball is a clean, straight game.
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The policy of dollar diplomacy is one that appeals alike to idealistic humanitarian sentiments, to dictates of sound policy, and strategy, and to legitimate commercial aims.
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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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We are imperfect. We cannot expect perfect government.
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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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Enthusiasm for a cause sometimes warps judgment.
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If this humor be the safety of our race, then it is due largely to the infusion into the American people of the Irish brain.
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The truth is that in my present life I don’t remember that I ever was president.
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We are all imperfect. We can not expect perfect government.
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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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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 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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We are all dependent upon the investment of capital.
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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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Too many people don’t care what happens so long as it doesn’t happen to them.
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