No tendency is quite so strong in human nature as the desire to lay down rules of conduct for other people.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFTMy 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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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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Anti-Semitism is a noxious weed that should be cut out. It has no place in America.
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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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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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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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Golf in the interest of good health and good manners. It promotes self-restraint and affords a chance to play the man and act the gentleman.
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Don’t write so that you can be understood, write so that you can’t be misunderstood.
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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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Action for which I become responsible, or for which my administration becomes responsible, shall be within the law.
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The game of baseball is a clean, straight game.
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The cheerful loser is a sort of winner.
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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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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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We are all dependent upon the investment of capital.
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The true Mason’s level of discernment increases with every use of the working tools, because the true Mason is ever working on him/her self.
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