William Howard Taft
Politics makes me sick.Collection: Politics
Failure to accord credit to anyone for what he may have done is a great weakness in any man.Collection: Great
A government is for the benefit of all the people.Collection: Government
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.Collection: Humor
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.Collection: Politics
The world is not going to be saved by legislation.Collection: Government
We are all imperfect. We can not expect perfect government.Collection: Government
No tendency is quite so strong in human nature as the desire to lay down rules of conduct for other people.Collection: Nature
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.Collection: Politics
Don't write so that you can be understood, write so that you can't be misunderstood.
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.
Anti-Semitism is a noxious weed that should be cut out. It has no place in America.
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.
Enthusiasm for a cause sometimes warps judgment.
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.
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.
Presidents come and go, but the Supreme Court goes on forever.
A system in which we may have an enforced rest from legislation for two years is not bad.
I am president now, and tired of being kicked around.
I think I might as well give up being a candidate. There are so many people in the country who don't like me.
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 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.
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.
As the Republican platforms says, the welfare of the farmer is vital to that of the whole country.
The trouble with me is that I like to talk too much.
Substantial progress toward better things can rarely be taken without developing new evils requiring new remedies.
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.
Action for which I become responsible, or for which my administration becomes responsible, shall be within the law.
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.
Too many people don't care what happens so long as it doesn't happen to them.Collection: Long
We must dare to be great; and we must realize that greatness is the fruit of toil and sacrifice and high courage.Collection: Inspirational Life
Repeat mantra: Donuts are not vitamins, donuts are not.Collection: Fitness
We can't have a decent government unless those in power exercise self restraint.Collection: Exercise
I don't know whither we are drifting, but I do know where every real thinking patriot will stand in the end, and that's by the Constitution.Collection: Real
If they will play fair I will play fair, but if they won't then I reserve all my rights to do anything I find myself able to do.Collection: Rights
The man with the average mentality, but with control, with a definite goal, and a clear conception of how it can be gained, and above all, with the power of application and labor, wins in the end.Collection: Winning
The cheerful loser is a sort of winner.Collection: Cheerful
The secret of Masonry, like the secret of life, can be known only by those who seek it, serve it, live it. It cannot be uttered; it can only be felt and acted. It is, in fact, an open secret, and each man knows it according to his quest and capacity. Like all things worth knowing, no one can know it for another and no man can know it alone.Collection: Men
Unless education promotes character making, unless it helps men to be more moral, more just to their fellows, more law abiding, more discriminatingly patriotic and public spirited, it is not worth the trouble taken to furnish it.Collection: Taken
The President can exercise no power which cannot be fairly and reasonably traced to some specific grant of power in the Federal Constitution or in an act of Congress passed in pursuance thereof. There is no undefined residuum of power which he can exercise because it seems to him to be in the public interest.Collection: Exercise
Constitutions are checks upon the hasty action of the majority. They are the self-imposed restraints of a whole people upon a majority of them to secure sober action and a respect for the rights of the minority.Collection: Rights
Well, I have one consolation. No candidate was ever elected ex-president by such a large majority!Collection: Funny
Golf in the interest of good health and good manners. It promotes self-restraint and affords a chance to play the man and act the gentleman.Collection: Golf
I do not allow myself to be moved by anything except the law. If there has been a mistake in the law, or if I think there has beenperjury or injustice, I will weigh the petition most carefully, but I do not permit myself to be moved by more harrowing details, and I try to treat each case as if I was reviewing it or hearing it for the first time from the bench.Collection: Mistake
The City that knows how.Collection: Cities
Politics make me sickCollection: Wisdom
Politics, when I am in it, makes me sick.Collection: Sick
The real secrets of Masonry are never told, not even from mouth to ear. For the real secret of Masonry is spoken to your heart and from it to the heart of your brother. Never the language made for tongue may speak it, it is uttered only in the eye in those manifestations of that love which a man has for his friend, which passeth all other loves.Collection: Brother
We passed the Children's Bureau bill calculated to prevent children from being employed too early in factories.Collection: Children