The world is not going to be saved by legislation.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFTWhen 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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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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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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We can’t have a decent government unless those in power exercise self restraint.
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A government is for the benefit of all the people.
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That all may be so, but when I begin to exercise that power I am not conscious of the power, but only of the limitations imposed on me.
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We are all dependent upon the investment of capital.
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Repeat mantra: Donuts are not vitamins, donuts are not.
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We have a government of limited power under the Constitution, and we have got to work out our problems on the basis of law.
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Next to the right of liberty, the right of property is the most important individual right guaranteed by the Constitution . .
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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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Politics, when I am in it, makes me sick.
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We are all imperfect. We can not expect perfect government.
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Too many people don’t care what happens so long as it doesn’t happen to them.
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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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