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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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William Howard Taft
Age: 72 †
Born: 1857
Born: September 15
Died: 1930
Died: March 8
27Th U.S. President
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