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.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT
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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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We shall have to begin all over again. [Taft hoped that] the Senators might change their minds, or that the people might change the Senate; instead of which they changed me.
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The precepts of the Gospel were universally the obligations of Masonry.
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Don’t worry over what the newspapers say. I don’t. Why should anyone else? I told the truth to the newspaper correspondents – but when you tell the truth to them they are at sea.
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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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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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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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A system in which we may have an enforced rest from legislation for two years is not bad.
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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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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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We must dare to be great; and we must realize that greatness is the fruit of toil and sacrifice and high courage.
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No, the only things which do not bother me are the elements. I can overcome them without a fight. All one has to do to get the best of the elements is to stand pat and one will win.
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In the public interest, therefore, it is better that we lose the services of the exceptions who are good Judges after they are seventy and avoid the presence on the Bench of men who are not able to keep up with the work, or to perform it satisfactorily.
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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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