The trouble with me is that I like to talk too much.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFTAnyone 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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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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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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Enthusiasm for a cause sometimes warps judgment.
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Don’t write so that you can be understood, write so that you can’t be misunderstood.
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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 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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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 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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The world is not going to be saved by legislation.
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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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Anti-Semitism is a noxious weed that should be cut out. It has no place in America.
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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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I do not know much about politics, but I am trying to do the best I can with this administration until the time shall come for me to turn it over to somebody else.
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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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