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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.

William Howard Taft

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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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Life Myself President Remember Truth
When the history of this period is written, [William Jennings] Bryan will stand out as one of the most remarkable men of his generation and one of the biggest political men of our country.
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Country History Ourselves Period Remark Stand
We can’t have a decent government unless those in power exercise self restraint.
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Decent Exercise Government Power
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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Country Favor Help Myself Prosperity Value
Too many people don’t care what happens so long as it doesn’t happen to them.
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Action Care People
We are all imperfect. We can not expect perfect government.
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Expectation Government Perfection
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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Human Nature People Quite Rule Strong
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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Basis Effort Enterprise Human Labor Propose Social Substitution
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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Court God Heaven Judgement Love
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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Fair Myself Play Reserve Right
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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Anxious Legislation Office Quit Security Willing
I’ll be damned if I am not getting tired of this. It seems to be the profession of a President simply to hear other people talk.
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Myself People President Profession Simplicity Talk Tired
A system in which we may have an enforced rest from legislation for two years is not bad.
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Bad Force Rest System Time
The precepts of the Gospel were universally the obligations of Masonry.
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Gospel Mason Obligation Universal
I am president now, and tired of being kicked around.
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Kick Myself President Tired
We, as Unitarians, may feel that the world is coming our way.
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Feeling Ourselves Way World

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