“ A man never knows exactly how the child of his brain will strike other people. ”
Unless education promotes character making, unless it helps men to be more moral, more just to their fellows, more law abiding, more discriminatingly patriotic and public spirited, it is not worth the trouble taken to furnish it.
~ William Howard Taft
A National Government cannot create good times. It cannot make the rain to fall, the sun to shine, or the crops to grow, but it can, by pursuing a meddlesome policy, attempting to change economic conditions, and frightening the investment of capital, prevent a prosperity and a revival of business which might otherwise have taken place.
We have a government of limited power under the Constitution, and we have got to work out our problems on the basis of law.
If this humor be the safety of our race, then it is due largely to the infusion into the American people of the Irish brain.
