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, as Unitarians, may feel that the world is coming our way.
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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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A government is for the benefit of all the people.
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The man with the average mentality, but with control, with a definite goal, and a clear conception of how it can be gained, and above all, with the power of application and labor, wins in the end.
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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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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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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 am glad to be going. This is the lonesomest pace in the world?
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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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We have a government of limited power under the Constitution, and we have got to work out our problems on the basis of law.
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Golf 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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The true Mason takes full responsibility for the condition of his character and ever strives for its perfection.
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I am president now, and tired of being kicked around.
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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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There are a great many people who are in favor of conservation no matter what it means.
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The trouble with me is that I like to talk too much.
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