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Enthusiasm for a cause sometimes warps judgment.

William Howard Taft

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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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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 am president now, and tired of being kicked around.
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Presidents come and go, but the Supreme Court goes on forever.
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The true Mason always carries his working tools everywhere.
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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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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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Anti-Semitism is a noxious weed that should be cut out. It has no place in America.
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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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I don’t know the man I admire more than [Charles Evans] Hughes. If ever I have the chance I shall offer him the Chief Justiceship.
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