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 TAFTAnti-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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We are imperfect. We cannot expect perfect government.
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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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Politics make me sick.
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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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A system in which we may have an enforced rest from legislation for two years is not bad.
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I think his greatest fault is his failure to accord credit to anyone for what he may have done. This is a great weakness in any man.
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The true Mason does not hold or teach the attitude that, I am a Master Mason now and thus I no longer need to be concerned with using the working tools because they were given in the earlier degrees.
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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 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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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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We passed the Children’s Bureau bill calculated to prevent children from being employed too early in factories.
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The game of baseball is a clean, straight game, and it summons to its presence everybody who enjoys clean, straight athletics. It furnishes amusement to the thousands and thousands.
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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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A man never knows exactly how the child of his brain will strike other people.
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