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.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFTThere is not a subject in which I take a deeper interest than I do in the development of Alaska, and I propose, if Congress will follow by recommendations, to do something in that territory that will make it move on.
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The trouble with me is that I like to talk too much.
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There is not a subject in which I take a deeper interest than I do in the development of Alaska, and I propose, if Congress will follow by recommendations, to do something in that territory that will make it move on.
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The true Mason takes full responsibility for the condition of his character and ever strives for its perfection.
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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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Politics make me sick.
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I do not believe in the divinity of Christ, and there are many other of the postulates of the orthodox creed to which I cannot subscribe.
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I am glad to be going. This is the lonesomest pace in the world?
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There are a great many people who are in favor of conservation no matter what it means.
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We live in a stage of politics, where legislators seem to regard the passage of laws as much more important than the results of their enforcement.
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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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A government is for the benefit of all the people.
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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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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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A man never knows exactly how the child of his brain will strike other people.
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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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