We passed the Children’s Bureau bill calculated to prevent children from being employed too early in factories.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFTAs the Republican platforms says, the welfare of the farmer is vital to that of the whole country.
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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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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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The Masonic system represents a stupendous and beautiful fabric, founded on universal purity, to rule and direct our passions, to have faith and love in God, and charity toward man.
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I am president now, and tired of being kicked around.
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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 true Mason always carries his working tools everywhere.
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Substantial progress toward better things can rarely be taken without developing new evils requiring new remedies.
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The precepts of the Gospel were universally the obligations of Masonry.
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The man with the average mentality, but with control, with a definite goal, and a clear conception of how it can be gained, and above all, with the power of application and labor, wins in the end.
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I have come to the conclusion that the major part of the president is to increase the gate receipts of expositions and fairs and bring tourists to town.
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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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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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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 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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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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