Politics make me sick.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFTPolitics, when I am in it, makes me sick.
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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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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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We live in a stage of politics, where legislators seem to regard the passage of laws as much more important than the results of their enforcement.
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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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Well, I have one consolation. No candidate was ever elected ex-president by such a large majority!
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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 imperfect. We can not expect perfect government.
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The true Mason ever strives to cultivate Masonry in his/her life to the fullest degree possible.
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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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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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I don’t know whither we are drifting, but I do know where every real thinking patriot will stand in the end, and that’s by the Constitution.
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Anti-Semitism is a noxious weed that should be cut out. It has no place in America.
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Action for which I become responsible, or for which my administration becomes responsible, shall be within the law.
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We are all dependent upon the investment of capital.
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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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