William Howard Taft Quotes
"We are all imperfect. We can not expect perfect government."
- William Howard Taft
(Related: Government)
"The world is not going to be saved by legislation."
- William Howard Taft
(Related: Legislation, World)
"The trouble with me is that I like to talk too much."
- William Howard Taft
(Related: Talk, Trouble)
"Substantial progress toward better things can rarely be taken without developing new evils requiring new remedies."
- William Howard Taft
(Related: Progress, Remedies)
"I have come to the conclusion that the major part of the work of a President is to increase the gate receipts of expositions and fairs and bring tourists to town."
- William Howard Taft
(Related: Work, President, Tourists)
"I love judges, and I love courts. They are my ideals, that typify on earth what we shall meet hereafter in heaven under a just God."
- William Howard Taft
(Related: Love, God, Earth, Heaven, Ideals, Judges)
"I think I might as well give up being a candidate. There are so many people in the country who don't like me."
- William Howard Taft
(Related: People, Being, Country)
"I'll be damned if I am not getting tired of this. It seems to be the profession of a President simply to hear other people talk."
- William Howard Taft
(Related: People, President, Profession, Talk)
"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
(Related: Humor, People, American, Irish, Race, Safety)
"Politics makes me sick."
- William Howard Taft
(Related: Politics)
"No, the only things which do not bother me are the elements. I can overcome them without a fight. All one has to do to get the best of the elements is to stand pat and one will win."
- William Howard Taft
(Related: Fight, Will)
"Action for which I become responsible, or for which my administration becomes responsible, shall be within the law."
- William Howard Taft
(Related: Action, Law)
"I do not know much about politics, but I am trying to do the best I can with this administration until the time shall come for me to turn it over to somebody else."
- William Howard Taft
(Related: Time, Politics, Trying)
"Presidents come and go, but the Supreme Court goes on forever."
- William Howard Taft
(Related: Court)
"Socialism proposes no adequate substitute for the motive of enlightened selfishness that today is at the basis of all human labor and effort, enterprise and new activity."
- William Howard Taft
(Related: Effort, Labor, Motive, Selfishness, Socialism, Today)
"No tendency is quite so strong in human nature as the desire to lay down rules of conduct for other people."
- William Howard Taft
(Related: Nature, People, Desire, Human nature, Rules)
"Don't worry over what the newspapers say. I don't. Why should anyone else? I told the truth to the newspaper correspondents - but when you tell the truth to them they are at sea."
- William Howard Taft
(Related: Truth, Newspapers, Sea, Worry)
"As the Republican platforms says, the welfare of the farmer is vital to that of the whole country."
- William Howard Taft
(Related: Country, Republican, Welfare)
"I do not believe in the divinity of Christ, and there are many other of the postulates of the orthodox creed to which I cannot subscribe."
- William Howard Taft
(Related: Christ, Divinity)
"Anti-Semitism is a noxious weed that should be cut out. It has no place in America."
- William Howard Taft
(Related: America)
"A government is for the benefit of all the people."
- William Howard Taft
(Related: Government, People)
"Don't write so that you can be understood, write so that you can't be misunderstood."
- William Howard Taft
"Enthusiasm for a cause sometimes warps judgment."
- William Howard Taft
(Related: Enthusiasm, Cause, Judgment)
"Failure to accord credit to anyone for what he may have done is a great weakness in any man."
- William Howard Taft
(Related: Failure, Credit, Man, May, Weakness)
"I am afraid I am a constant disappointment to my party. The fact of the matter is, the longer I am president the less of a party man I seem to become."
- William Howard Taft
(Related: Disappointment, Fact, Man, Party, President)
"I am in favor of helping the prosperity of all countries because, when we are all prosperous, the trade with each becomes more valuable to the other."
- William Howard Taft
(Related: Countries, Prosperity, Trade)
"I am president now, and tired of being kicked around."
- William Howard Taft
(Related: Being, Now, President)
"A system in which we may have an enforced rest from legislation for two years is not bad."
- William Howard Taft
(Related: Legislation, May, Rest, Years)