The cheerful loser is a sort of winner.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFTThe world is not going to be saved by legislation.
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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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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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Enthusiasm for a cause sometimes warps judgment.
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The true Mason is ever vigilant for subtle traces of character and personality flaws which daily experience brings out.
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The true Mason always carries his working tools everywhere.
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We can’t have a decent government unless those in power exercise self restraint.
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The world is not going to be saved by legislation.
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Repeat mantra: Donuts are not vitamins, donuts are not.
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Substantial progress toward better things can rarely be taken without developing new evils requiring new remedies.
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A government is for the benefit of all the people.
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The President cannot make clouds to rain and cannot make the corn to grow. He cannot make business good, although when these things occur, political parties do claim some credit for the good things that have happened in this way
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We are all imperfect. We can not expect perfect government.
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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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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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Anti-Semitism is a noxious weed that should be cut out. It has no place in America.
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Socialism proposes no adequate substitute for the motive of enlightened selfishness that today is at the basis of all human labor and effort, enterprise and new activity.
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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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I do not believe in the divinity of Christ, and there are many other of the postulates of the orthodox creed to which I cannot subscribe.
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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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We are all dependent upon the investment of capital.
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I think I might as well give up being a candidate. There are so many people in the country who don’t like me.
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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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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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We passed the Children’s Bureau bill calculated to prevent children from being employed too early in factories.
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A system in which we may have an enforced rest from legislation for two years is not bad.
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We, as Unitarians, may feel that the world is coming our way.
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