We can’t have a decent government unless those in power exercise self restraint.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFTThe laboring man and the trade-unionist, if I understand him, asks only equality before the law. Class legislation and unequal privilege, though expressly in his favor, will in the end work no benefit to him or to society.
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I 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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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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Well, I have one consolation. No candidate was ever elected ex-president by such a large majority!
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What I am anxious to do is to secure my legislation…. What I want to do is to get through that, and if I can point to a record of usefulness of that kind, I am entirely willing to quit office.
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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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Substantial progress toward better things can rarely be taken without developing new evils requiring new remedies.
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Presidents come and go, but the Supreme Court goes on forever.
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Enthusiasm for a cause sometimes warps judgment.
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The true Mason never hesitates to use the working tools to correct personal flaws.
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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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Politics, when I am in it, makes me sick.
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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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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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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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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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