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.

William Howard Taft
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  2. 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.

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