A government is for the benefit of all the people.
- William Howard Taft Quote

A system in which we may have an enforced rest from legislation for two years is not bad.
- William Howard Taft Quote

Anti-Semitism is a noxious weed that should be cut out. It has no place in America.
- William Howard Taft Quote

As the Republican platforms says, the welfare of the farmer is vital to that of the whole country.
- William Howard Taft Quote

Don't write so that you can be understood, write so that you can't be misunderstood.
- William Howard Taft Quote

Enthusiasm for a cause sometimes warps judgment.
- William Howard Taft Quote

Failure to accord credit to anyone for what he may have done is a great weakness in any man.
- William Howard Taft Quote

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 Quote

I am president now, and tired of being kicked around.
- William Howard Taft Quote

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 Quote

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.
- William Howard Taft Quote

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 Quote

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 Quote

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 Quote

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 Quote

Politics makes me sick.
- William Howard Taft Quote

Politics, when I am in it, it makes me sick.
- William Howard Taft Quote

Presidents come and go, but the Supreme Court goes on forever.
- William Howard Taft Quote

Substantial progress toward better things can rarely be taken without developing new evils requiring new remedies.
- William Howard Taft Quote

The trouble with me is that I like to talk too much.
- William Howard Taft Quote

The world is not going to be saved by legislation.
- William Howard Taft Quote

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 Quote