“ 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
“ 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
“ 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
“ We have a government of limited power under the Constitution, and we have got to work out our problems on the basis of law. 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
“ 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
“ Some men are graduated from college cum laude some are graduated summa cum laude and some are graduated mirabile dictu. 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
“ Failure to accord credit to anyone for what he may have done is a great weakness in any man. William Howard Taft
“ A National Government cannot create good times. It cannot make the rain to fall, the sun to shine, or the crops to grow, but it can, by pursuing a meddlesome policy, attempting to change economic cond… William Howard Taft
“ 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… William Howard Taft
“ Don't write so that you can be understood, write so that you can't be misunderstood. William Howard Taft
