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.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFTWe passed the Children’s Bureau bill calculated to prevent children from being employed too early in factories.
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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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Politics, when I am in it, makes me sick.
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The world is not going to be saved by legislation.
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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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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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A government is for the benefit of all the people.
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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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The true Mason ever strives to cultivate Masonry in his/her life to the fullest degree possible.
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I am glad to be going. This is the lonesomest pace in the world?
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I 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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The trouble with me is that I like to talk too much.
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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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Enthusiasm for a cause sometimes warps judgment.
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The true Mason never hesitates to use the working tools to correct personal flaws.
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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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