Politics make me sick.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT
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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Politics make me sick.
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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 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 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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Next to the right of liberty, the right of property is the most important individual right guaranteed by the Constitution . .
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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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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 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 trouble with me is that I like to talk too much.
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I am president now, and tired of being kicked around.
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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 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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There is not a subject in which I take a deeper interest than I do in the development of Alaska, and I propose, if Congress will follow by recommendations, to do something in that territory that will make it move on.
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I do not believe in the divinity of Christ, and there are many other of the postulates of the orthodox creed to which I cannot subscribe.
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