A man never knows exactly how the child of his brain will strike other people.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFTThe policy of dollar diplomacy is one that appeals alike to idealistic humanitarian sentiments, to dictates of sound policy, and strategy, and to legitimate commercial aims.
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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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I have come to the conclusion that the major part of the president is to increase the gate receipts of expositions and fairs and bring tourists to town.
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What I am anxious to do is to secure my legislation…. What I want to do is to get through that, and if I can point to a record of usefulness of that kind, I am entirely willing to quit office.
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Enthusiasm for a cause sometimes warps judgment.
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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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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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The cheerful loser is a sort of winner.
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We passed the Children’s Bureau bill calculated to prevent children from being employed too early in factories.
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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.
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The man with the average mentality, but with control, with a definite goal, and a clear conception of how it can be gained, and above all, with the power of application and labor, wins in the end.
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The game of baseball is a clean, straight game, and it summons to its presence everybody who enjoys clean, straight athletics. It furnishes amusement to the thousands and thousands.
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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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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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Next to the right of liberty, the right of property is the most important individual right guaranteed by the Constitution . .
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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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