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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.

William Howard Taft

The diplomacy of the present administration has sought to respond to the modern idea of commercial intercourse. This policy has been characterized as substituting dollars for bullets.
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Administration Character Commercial Policy Present
A man never knows exactly how the child of his brain will strike other people.
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Brain Children Himself Man People
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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Action Check Constitution Minority People Security
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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Greatness Impression Introduction Revolution Trade
Well, I have one consolation. No candidate was ever elected ex-president by such a large majority!
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Candidate Majority Myself President
We, as Unitarians, may feel that the world is coming our way.
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Feeling Ourselves Way World
The true Mason always carries his working tools everywhere.
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Carry Tools True Work
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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Greatness Irritation Moral Myself Order Rule Stand
The true Mason is ever vigilant for subtle traces of character and personality flaws which daily experience brings out.
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Bring Character Experience Flaw Personality Trace True
The laboring man and the trade-unionist, if I understand him, asks only equality before the law. Class legislation and unequal privilege, though expressly in his favor, will in the end work no benefit to him or to society.
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Equality Law Man Privilege Society Trade Understand
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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Administration Best Effort Myself Politics Time Try
Politics, when I am in it, makes me sick.
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Feeling Myself Politics Sick
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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Admire Chief Himself Man Myself Offering
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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Greatness Man Mistake Thinking Weakness
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
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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Feeling heavy Office Power Promise Responsibility

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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