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In the public interest, therefore, it is better that we lose the services of the exceptions who are good Judges after they are seventy and avoid the presence on the Bench of men who are not able to keep up with the work, or to perform it satisfactorily.

— 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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