William Howard Taft Quotes

The world is not going to be saved by legislation.
William Howard Taft

Don't write so that you can be understood, write so that you can't be misunderstood.
William Howard Taft

Write, Understood

No tendency is quite so strong in human nature as the desire to lay down rules of conduct for other people.
William Howard Taft

Nature, Strong, Human

Anti-Semitism is a noxious weed that should be cut out. It has no place in America.
William Howard Taft

America, Place, Weed

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

Humor, Brain, American

Failure to accord credit to anyone for what he may have done is a great weakness in any man.
William Howard Taft

Great, Failure, May

Presidents come and go, but the Supreme Court goes on forever.
William Howard Taft

Goes, Forever, Court

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.
William Howard Taft

Politics, Live, Important

A government is for the benefit of all the people.
William Howard Taft

Government, Benefit

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

Truth, Why, Else

Enthusiasm for a cause sometimes warps judgment.
William Howard Taft

Sometimes, Cause, Enthusiasm

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

Politics, Time, Best

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

Tired, Talk, Getting

Politics makes me sick.
William Howard Taft

Politics, Sick, Makes

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

Today, Human, Effort

The trouble with me is that I like to talk too much.
William Howard Taft

A system in which we may have an enforced rest from legislation for two years is not bad.
William Howard Taft

Action for which I become responsible, or for which my administration becomes responsible, shall be within the law.
William Howard Taft

Law, Become, Action

As the Republican platforms says, the welfare of the farmer is vital to that of the whole country.
William Howard Taft

Country, Whole, Republican

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

Become, Afraid, Matter

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

Valuable, Prosperity, Countries

I am president now, and tired of being kicked around.
William Howard Taft

Tired, Around, President

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

Cannot, Christ, Divinity

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

Work, President, Bring

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

Love, God, Earth

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: President

Born: September 15, 1857

Died: March 8, 1930

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