I am president now, and tired of being kicked around.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFTPresidents come and go, but the Supreme Court goes on forever.
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We can’t have a decent government unless those in power exercise self restraint.
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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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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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The true Mason ever strives to cultivate Masonry in his/her life to the fullest degree possible.
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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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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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Presidents come and go, but the Supreme Court goes on forever.
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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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As the Republican platforms says, the welfare of the farmer is vital to that of the whole country.
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I am afraid I am a constant disappointment to my party. The fact of the matter is, the longer I am President the less of a party man I seem to become.
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The 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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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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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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The true Mason always carries his working tools everywhere.
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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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A man never knows exactly how the child of his brain will strike other people.
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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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Action for which I become responsible, or for which my administration becomes responsible, shall be within the law.
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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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We passed the Children’s Bureau bill calculated to prevent children from being employed too early in factories.
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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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The Masonic system represents a stupendous and beautiful fabric, founded on universal purity, to rule and direct our passions, to have faith and love in God, and charity toward man.
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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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No tendency is quite so strong in human nature as the desire to lay down rules of conduct for other people.
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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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Enthusiasm for a cause sometimes warps judgment.
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