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My impression about the Panama Canal is that the great revolution it is going to introduce in the trade of the world is in the trade between the east and the west coast of the United States.

William Howard Taft

The game of baseball is a clean, straight game.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT

Cleaning Game Sports
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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Anxious Legislation Office Quit Security Willing
The cheerful loser is a sort of winner.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT

Cheerful Lost Win
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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Important Live Politics Result Stage Time
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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Candidate Country Myself People Thinking
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.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT

Application Average Control Definite End Goal Man Mental
We, as Unitarians, may feel that the world is coming our way.
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Feeling Ourselves Way World
That all may be so, but when I begin to exercise that power I am not conscious of the power, but only of the limitations imposed on me.
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Beginning Exercise Impose Limitation Myself Power
We are all imperfect. We can not expect perfect government.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT

Expectation Government Perfection
We are all dependent upon the investment of capital.
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Capital Dependent Investment
I’ll be damned if I am not getting tired of this. It seems to be the profession of a President simply to hear other people talk.
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Myself People President Profession Simplicity Talk Tired
Enthusiasm for a cause sometimes warps judgment.
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Enthusiasm Judgement Reason
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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Experience Hard Work Modern Myself Progress
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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Attitude Degree Early Hold Need Teaching
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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Administration Best Effort Myself Politics Time Try
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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Feeling heavy Office Power Promise Responsibility

My impression about the Panama Canal is that the great revolution it is going to introduce in the trade of the world is in the trade between the east and the west coast of the United States.

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