I think I might as well give up being a candidate. There are so many people in the country who don’t like me.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFTI 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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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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Action for which I become responsible, or for which my administration becomes responsible, shall be within the law.
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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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The precepts of the Gospel were universally the obligations of Masonry.
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Substantial progress toward better things can rarely be taken without developing new evils requiring new remedies.
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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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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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Golf 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 true Mason’s level of discernment increases with every use of the working tools, because the true Mason is ever working on him/her self.
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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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We can’t have a decent government unless those in power exercise self restraint.
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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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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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We are all imperfect. We can not expect perfect government.
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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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