William Howard Taft Quotes (32 Quotes)
- Well, I have one consolation, No candidate was ever elected ex-president by such a large majority.
(William Howard Taft)
- We are all imperfect. We can not expect perfect government.
(William Howard Taft)
- Action for which I become responsible, or for which my administration becomes responsible, shall be within the law.
(William Howard Taft)
- Enthusiasm for a cause sometimes warps judgment.
(William Howard Taft)
- Failure to accord credit to anyone for what he may have done is a great weakness in any man.
(William Howard Taft)
- 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)
- No tendency is quite so strong in human nature as the desire to lay down rules of conduct for other people.
(William Howard Taft)
- 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)
- The trouble with me is that I like to talk too much.
(William Howard Taft)
- 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)
- 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)
- A government is for the benefit of all the people.
(William Howard Taft)
- A system in which we may have an enforced rest from legislation for two years is not bad.
(William Howard Taft)
- 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)
- One cannot always be sure of the truth of what one hears if he happens to be President of the United States.
(William Howard Taft)
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