Presidents come and go, but the Supreme Court goes on forever.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFTPresidents come and go, but the Supreme Court goes on forever.
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 TAFTWe are all imperfect. We can not expect perfect government.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFTWe must dare to be great; and we must realize that greatness is the fruit of toil and sacrifice and high courage.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFTThe game of baseball is a clean, straight game, and it summons to its presence everybody who enjoys clean, straight athletics. It furnishes amusement to the thousands and thousands.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFTThe policy of dollar diplomacy is one that appeals alike to idealistic humanitarian sentiments, to dictates of sound policy, and strategy, and to legitimate commercial aims.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFTAnyone who has taken the oath I have just taken must feel a heavy weight of responsibility. If not, he has no conception of the powers and duties of the office.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFTSocialism 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.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFTWhen the history of this period is written, [William Jennings] Bryan will stand out as one of the most remarkable men of his generation and one of the biggest political men of our country.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFTThere are a great many people who are in favor of conservation no matter what it means.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFTPolitics make me sick.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFTDon’t write so that you can be understood, write so that you can’t be misunderstood.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFTI think his greatest fault is his failure to accord credit to anyone for what he may have done. This is a great weakness in any man.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFTWe passed the Children’s Bureau bill calculated to prevent children from being employed too early in factories.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFTAction for which I become responsible, or for which my administration becomes responsible, shall be within the law.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFTThe true Mason is ever vigilant for subtle traces of character and personality flaws which daily experience brings out.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT