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On the recordMay 29, 1911
Love of country, love of family, love of God—it is difficult to classify these affections of the human heart and soul, for they so melt into each other that the one who has most of one has most of all.
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Robert Taft
Republican · Ohio

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Memorial Day Address at Arlington Cemetery

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Jul 25, 1911

The whole contention that the executive order and the opening to settlement of the shore of Controller Bay grants a monopoly to the railway company rests on the claim that it has given an opportunity to persons using scrip to appropriate the control of the only available and practicable parts of the channel by the location of the scrip opposite to those parts.

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Aug 17, 1911

Another clause that calls for comment is in the leather paragraph, which reads as follows: \Leather cut into shoe uppers or vamps or other forms suitable for conversion into manufactured articles.\

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Aug 3, 1911

With a view to receiving the advice and consent of the Senate to the ratification of the treaty, I transmit herewith an authenticated copy of a treaty signed by the plenipotentiaries of the United States and France on August 3, 1911.

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Aug 14, 1911

In dealing with the courts, which are the cornerstone of good government, and in which not only the voters, but the nonvoters and nonresidents, have a deep interest as a security for their rights of life, liberty, and property, no matter what the future action of the State may be, it is necessary for the authority which is primarily responsible for its creation to assert in no doubtful tones the necessity for an independent and untrammeled judiciary.

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