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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.
William Howard Taft
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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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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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The true Mason always carries his working tools everywhere.
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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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Next to the right of liberty, the right of property is the most important individual right guaranteed by the Constitution . .
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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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Masonry aims at the promotion of morality and higher living by the cultivation of the social side of man, the rousing in him of the instincts of charity and love of his kind. It rests surely on the foundation of the brotherhood of man and the fatherhood of God.
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The City that knows how.
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When the history of this period is written, [William Jennings] Bryan will stand out as one of the most remarkable men of his generation and one of the biggest political men of our country.
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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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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 am in favor of helping the prosperity of all countries because, when we are all prosperous, the trade with each becomes more valuable to the other.
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I am glad to be going. This is the lonesomest pace in the world?
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In the public interest, therefore, it is better that we lose the services of the exceptions who are good Judges after they are seventy and avoid the presence on the Bench of men who are not able to keep up with the work, or to perform it satisfactorily.
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One cannot always be sure of the truth of what one hears if he happens to be President of the United States.
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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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Repeat mantra: Donuts are not vitamins, donuts are not.
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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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We are all dependent upon the investment of capital.
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The true Mason is the Tiler of the Temple of the Heart.
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