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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…
• We are imperfect. We cannot expect perfect government.
• Constitutions are checks upon the hasty action of the majority. They are the self-imposed restraints of a whole people upon a majority…
• I do not believe in the divinity of Christ, and there are many other of the postulates of the orthodox creed to…
• We must dare to be great; and we must realize that greatness is the fruit of toil and sacrifice and high courage.
• My impression about the Panama Canal is that the great revolution it is going to introduce in the trade of the world…
• I wish to reiterate all the reasons which [my predecessor] has presented in favor of the policy of maintaining a strong navy…
• The President can exercise no power which cannot be fairly and reasonably traced to some specific grant of power in the Federal…
• Politics, when I am in it, it makes me sick.
• I have come to the conclusion that the major part of the president is to increase the gate receipts of expositions and…
• I am glad to be going. This is the lonesomest pace in the world?
• The intoxication of power rapidly sobers off in the knowledge of its restrictions and under the prompt reminder of an ever-present and…

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