Words matter. These are the best William Howard Taft Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
As the Republican platforms says, the welfare of the farmer is vital to that of the whole country.
I am president now, and tired of being kicked around.
We are all imperfect. We can not expect perfect government.
No tendency is quite so strong in human nature as the desire to lay down rules of conduct for other people.
Don’t write so that you can be understood, write so that you can’t be misunderstood.
A system in which we may have an enforced rest from legislation for two years is not bad.
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.
Failure to accord credit to anyone for what he may have done is a great weakness in any man.
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.
The world is not going to be saved by legislation.
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.
Enthusiasm for a cause sometimes warps judgment.
Politics makes me sick.
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.
A government is for the benefit of all the people.
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.
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.
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.
I think I might as well give up being a candidate. There are so many people in the country who don’t like me.
Substantial progress toward better things can rarely be taken without developing new evils requiring new remedies.
Anti-Semitism is a noxious weed that should be cut out. It has no place in America.
The day is not far distant when three Stars and Stripes at three equidistant points will mark our territory: one at the North Pole, another at the Panama Canal, and the third at the South Pole. The whole hemisphere will be ours in fact as, by virtue of our superiority of race, it already is ours morally.
Action for which I become responsible, or for which my administration becomes responsible, shall be within the law.
We live in a stage of politics, where legislators seem to regard the passage of laws as much more important than the results of their enforcement.
The trouble with me is that I like to talk too much.
