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Unless education promotes character making, unless it helps men to be more moral, more just to their...

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We are all imperfect. We can not expect perfect government.

If this humor be the safety of our race, then it is due largely to the infusion into the American pe...

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Don't write so that you can be understood, write so that you can't be misunderstood.

Failure to accord credit to anyone for what he may have done is a great weakness in any man.

We have a government of limited power under the Constitution, and we have got to work out our proble...

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Politics makes me sick.

We live in a stage of politics, where legislators seem to regard the passage of laws as much more im...

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Some men are graduated from college cum laude some are graduated summa cum laude and some are grad...

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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 simpl...

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A government is for the benefit of all the people.

The world is not going to be saved by legislation.

A man never knows exactly how the child of his brain will strike other people.

Don't worry over what the newspapers say. I don't. Why should anyone else? I told the truth to the n...

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A National Government cannot create good times. It cannot make the rain to fall, the sun to shine, o...

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William Howard Taft

President

Born: 1857-09-15

Died: 1930-03-08

William Howard Taft (15 September 1857 – 8 March 1930) was the 27th president of the United States (1909–1913) and 10th chief justice of the United States (1921–1930). He also served as an associate judge on the Sixth Circuit, Governor-General of the Philippines, Secretary of War to Theodore Roosevelt and Solicitor General. Between 1914 and 1920 he was the Kent Professor of Law at Yale University.More