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

— William Howard Taft

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Substantial progress toward better things can rarely be taken with out developing new evils requiring new remedies.

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The welfare of the farmer is vital to that of the whole country.

If humor be the safety of our race, then it is due largely to the infusion into the American people of the Irish brain.

The world is not going to be saved by legislation.

Our Chief Magistrate and His Powers (1916)

Anti-Semitism is a noxious weed that should be cut out. It has no place in America.

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