I’ll be damned if I am not getting tired of this. It seems to be the profession of a President simply to hear other people talk.
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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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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A man never knows exactly how the child of his brain will strike other people.
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Presidents come and go, but the Supreme Court goes on forever.
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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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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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As the Republican platforms says, the welfare of the farmer is vital to that of the whole country.
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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 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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My impression about the Panama Canal is that the great revolution it is going to introduce in the trade of the world is in the trade between the east and the west coast of the United States.
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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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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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The trouble with me is that I like to talk too much.
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Repeat mantra: Donuts are not vitamins, donuts are not.
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We, as Unitarians, may feel that the world is coming our way.
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That all may be so, but when I begin to exercise that power I am not conscious of the power, but only of the limitations imposed on me.
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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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Politics make me sick.
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There is nothing so despicable as a secret society that is based upon religious prejudice and that will attempt to defeat a man because of his religious beliefs. Such a society is like a cockroach – it thrives in the dark. So do those who combine for such an end.
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I love judges, and I love courts. They are my ideals, that typify on earth what we shall meet hereafter in heaven under a just God.
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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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A government is for the benefit of all the people.
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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 know this, and I know it from actual experience in the Orient, that the progress of modern Christian civilization has largely depended on the earnest hard work of the Christian missions of every denomination.
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Well, I have one consolation. No candidate was ever elected ex-president by such a large majority!
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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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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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