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Presidents come and go, but the Supreme Court goes on forever.

~William Howard Taft

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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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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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The day is not far distant when three Stars and Stripes at three equidistant points will mark our territory: one at the North Pole, another at the Panama Canal, and the third at the South Pole. The whole hemisphere will be ours in fact as, by virtue of our superiority of race, it already is ours morally.

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Politics makes me sick.

~William Howard Taft

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Enthusiasm for a cause sometimes warps judgment.

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Socialism proposes no adequate substitute for the motive of enlightened selfishness that today is at the basis of all human labor and effort, enterprise and new activity.

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We live in a stage of politics, where legislators seem to regard the passage of laws as much more important than the results of their enforcement.

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No tendency is quite so strong in human nature as the desire to lay down rules of conduct for other people.

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Substantial progress toward better things can rarely be taken without developing new evils requiring new remedies.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: President

Born: September 15th, 1857

Died: March 8th, 1930

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