Next to the right of liberty, the right of property is the most important individual right guaranteed by the Constitution . .
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFTThe 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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Anti-Semitism is a noxious weed that should be cut out. It has no place in America.
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Politics, when I am in it, makes me sick.
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The cheerful loser is a sort of winner.
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Anyone who has taken the oath I have just taken must feel a heavy weight of responsibility. If not, he has no conception of the powers and duties of the office.
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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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We shall have to begin all over again. [Taft hoped that] the Senators might change their minds, or that the people might change the Senate; instead of which they changed me.
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Action for which I become responsible, or for which my administration becomes responsible, shall be within the law.
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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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There are a great many people who are in favor of conservation no matter what it means.
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I love judges, and I love courts. They are my ideals, that typify on earth what we shall meet hereafter in heaven under a just God.
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I know this, and I know it from actual experience in the Orient, that the progress of modern Christian civilization has largely depended on the earnest hard work of the Christian missions of every denomination.
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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.
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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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A man never knows exactly how the child of his brain will strike other people.
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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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