All William Howard Taft Quotes
Substantial progress toward better things can rarely be taken without developing new evils requiring new remedies.
William Howard Taft
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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
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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.
William Howard Taft
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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.
William Howard Taft
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As the Republican platforms says, the welfare of the farmer is vital to that of the whole country.
William Howard Taft
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Action for which I become responsible, or for which my administration becomes responsible, shall be within the law.
William Howard Taft
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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.
William Howard Taft
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Don't write so that you can be understood, write so that you can't be misunderstood.
William Howard Taft
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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
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The trouble with me is that I like to talk too much.
William Howard Taft
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Failure to accord credit to anyone for what he may have done is a great weakness in any man.
William Howard Taft
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Anti-Semitism is a noxious weed that should be cut out. It has no place in America.
William Howard Taft
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I am president now, and tired of being kicked around.
William Howard Taft
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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.
William Howard Taft
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