William Howard Taft Quotes
The 27th President of the United States and later the 10th Chief Justice of the United States.
(1857 - 1930)
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A government is for the benefit of all the people.
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A system in which we may have an enforced rest from legislation for two years is not bad.
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Action for which I become responsible, or for which my administration becomes responsible, shall be within the law.
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Anti-Semitism is a noxious weed that should be cut out. It has no place in America.
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As the Republican platforms says, the welfare of the farmer is vital to that of the whole country.
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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.
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Don't write so that you can be understood, write so that you can't be misunderstood.
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Enthusiasm for a cause sometimes warps judgment.
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Failure to accord credit to anyone for what he may have done is a great weakness in any man.
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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.
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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.
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I am president now, and tired of being kicked around.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I think I might as well give up being a candidate. There are so many people in the country who don't like me.
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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.
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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.
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If we can develop a class of educated men with nothing else to do but to better government, we ought to use them; and we ought to use them by having the profession of the politician recognized as essential to the welfare of the Republic.
[Government]
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