A system in which we may have an enforced rest from legislation for two years is not bad.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT
Substantial progress toward better things can rarely be taken without developing new evils requiring new remedies.
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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 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.
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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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Presidents come and go, but the Supreme Court goes on forever.
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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 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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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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The President cannot make clouds to rain and cannot make the corn to grow. He cannot make business good, although when these things occur, political parties do claim some credit for the good things that have happened in this way
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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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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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In the public interest, therefore, it is better that we lose the services of the exceptions who are good Judges after they are seventy and avoid the presence on the Bench of men who are not able to keep up with the work, or to perform it satisfactorily.
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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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The 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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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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As the Republican platforms says, the welfare of the farmer is vital to that of the whole country.
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