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.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFTIn 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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The game of baseball is a clean, straight game, and it summons to its presence everybody who enjoys clean, straight athletics. It furnishes amusement to the thousands and thousands.
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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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We are all dependent upon the investment of capital.
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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 precepts of the Gospel were universally the obligations of Masonry.
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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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Repeat mantra: Donuts are not vitamins, donuts are not.
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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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We passed the Children’s Bureau bill calculated to prevent children from being employed too early in factories.
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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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Constitutions are checks upon the hasty action of the majority. They are the self-imposed restraints of a whole people upon a majority of them to secure sober action and a respect for the rights of the minority.
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A man never knows exactly how the child of his brain will strike other people.
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Politics make me sick.
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We are imperfect. We cannot expect perfect government.
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Substantial progress toward better things can rarely be taken without developing new evils requiring new remedies.
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I do not know much about politics, but I am trying to do the best I can with this administration until the time shall come for me to turn it over to somebody else.
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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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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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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 am afraid I am a constant disappointment to my party. The fact of the matter is, the longer I am President the less of a party man I seem to become.
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I know how irritating it is to have somebody else lay down rules for your moral uplift, but you’ve got to stand a great deal in order to make progress.
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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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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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If they will play fair I will play fair, but if they won’t then I reserve all my rights to do anything I find myself able to do.
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The trouble with me is that I like to talk too much.
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