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William Howard Taft

"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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"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."
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"Failure to accord credit to anyone for what he may have done is a great weakness in any man."
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"I do not believe in the divinity of Christ, and there are many other of the postulates of the orthodox creed to which I cannot subscribe."
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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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