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We have passed the time of ... the laisser-faire [sic] school which believes that the government ought to do nothing but run a police force.

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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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Cincinnati
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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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As a people, we have the problem of making our forests outlast this generation, or iron outlast this century, and our coal the next not merely as a matter of convenience or comfort, but as a matter of stern necessity.
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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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As the Republican platforms says, the welfare of the farmer is vital to that of the whole country.
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