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 TAFTI 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 TAFTWe 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 TAFTIf 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 TAFTI 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 TAFTConstitutions 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.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFTDon’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 TAFTWe are all imperfect. We can not expect perfect government.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFTToo many people don’t care what happens so long as it doesn’t happen to them.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFTThe truth is that in my present life I don’t remember that I ever was president.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFTWe can’t have a decent government unless those in power exercise self restraint.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFTI know how irritating it is to have somebody else lay down rules for your moral uplift, but you’ve got to stand a great deal in order to make progress.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFTThe cheerful loser is a sort of winner.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFTI’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 TAFTAnti-Semitism is a noxious weed that should be cut out. It has no place in America.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFTWe are imperfect. We cannot expect perfect government.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFTWe are all dependent upon the investment of capital.
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