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.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFTWe, as Unitarians, may feel that the world is coming our way.
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A man never knows exactly how the child of his brain will strike other people.
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The truth is that in my present life I don’t remember that I ever was president.
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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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Don’t write so that you can be understood, write so that you can’t be misunderstood.
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Next to the right of liberty, the right of property is the most important individual right guaranteed by the Constitution . .
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We are all imperfect. We can not expect perfect government.
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If they will play fair I will play fair, but if they won’t then I reserve all my rights to do anything I find myself able to do.
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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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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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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.
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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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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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We can’t have a decent government unless those in power exercise self restraint.
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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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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 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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The world is not going to be saved by legislation.
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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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Politics make me sick.
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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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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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There are a great many people who are in favor of conservation no matter what it means.
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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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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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I am president now, and tired of being kicked around.
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The true Mason never hesitates to use the working tools to correct personal flaws.
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