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.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFTThe 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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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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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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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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Too many people don’t care what happens so long as it doesn’t happen to them.
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The true Mason never hesitates to use the working tools to correct personal flaws.
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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 ever strives to cultivate Masonry in his/her life to the fullest degree possible.
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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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Politics, when I am in it, makes me sick.
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A government is for the benefit of all the people.
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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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We, as Unitarians, may feel that the world is coming our way.
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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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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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Presidents come and go, but the Supreme Court goes on forever.
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