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"A system in which we may have an enforced rest from legislation for two years is not bad."
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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."
"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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