Don’t worry over what the newspapers say. I don’t. Why should anyone else? I told the truth to the newspaper correspondents – but when you tell the truth to them they are at sea.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFTAnti-Semitism is a noxious weed that should be cut out. It has no place in America.
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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 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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We must dare to be great; and we must realize that greatness is the fruit of toil and sacrifice and high courage.
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Action for which I become responsible, or for which my administration becomes responsible, shall be within the law.
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I’ll be damned if I am not getting tired of this. It seems to be the profession of a President simply to hear other people talk.
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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 passed the Children’s Bureau bill calculated to prevent children from being employed too early in factories.
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The intoxication of power rapidly sobers off in the knowledge of its restrictions and under the prompt reminder of an ever-present and not always considerate press, as well as the kindly suggestions that not infrequently come from Congress.
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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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The game of baseball is a clean, straight game.
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If this humor be the safety of our race, then it is due largely to the infusion into the American people of the Irish brain.
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We are imperfect. We cannot expect perfect government.
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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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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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