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No, the only things which do not bother me are the elements. I can overcome them without a fight. All one has to do to get the best of the elements is to stand pat and one will win.

William Howard Taft

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The Masonic system represents a stupendous and beautiful fabric, founded on universal purity, to rule and direct our passions, to have faith and love in God, and charity toward man.
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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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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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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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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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I know how irritating it is to have somebody else lay down rules for your moral uplift, but you’ve got to stand a great deal in order to make progress.
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We, as Unitarians, may feel that the world is coming our way.
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Presidents come and go, but the Supreme Court goes on forever.
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Politics, when I am in it, makes me sick.
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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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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.
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Politics make me sick.
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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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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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