The world is not going to be saved by legislation.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFTI 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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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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The true Mason always carries his working tools everywhere.
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The diplomacy of the present administration has sought to respond to the modern idea of commercial intercourse. This policy has been characterized as substituting dollars for bullets.
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Golf in the interest of good health and good manners. It promotes self-restraint and affords a chance to play the man and act the gentleman.
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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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The trouble with me is that I like to talk too much.
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Presidents come and go, but the Supreme Court goes on forever.
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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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Well, I have one consolation. No candidate was ever elected ex-president by such a large majority!
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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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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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I am glad to be going. This is the lonesomest pace in the world?
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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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Politics, when I am in it, makes me sick.
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A man never knows exactly how the child of his brain will strike other people.
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