Politics, when I am in it, makes me sick.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFTGolf in the interest of good health and good manners. It promotes self-restraint and affords a chance to play the man and act the gentleman.
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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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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 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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We, as Unitarians, may feel that the world is coming our way.
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The precepts of the Gospel were universally the obligations of Masonry.
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We are all dependent upon the investment of capital.
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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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Too many people don’t care what happens so long as it doesn’t happen to them.
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The game of baseball is a clean, straight game.
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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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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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Politics make me sick.
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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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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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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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