Anyone 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 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 TAFTThe President cannot make clouds to rain and cannot make the corn to grow. He cannot make business good, although when these things occur, political parties do claim some credit for the good things that have happened in this way
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFTI am glad to be going. This is the lonesomest pace in the world?
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFTThe Masonic system represents a stupendous and beautiful fabric, founded on universal purity, to rule and direct our passions, to have faith and love in God, and charity toward man.
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 TAFTA man never knows exactly how the child of his brain will strike other people.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFTRepeat mantra: Donuts are not vitamins, donuts are not.
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 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 TAFTPresidents come and go, but the Supreme Court goes on forever.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFTI 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.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFTMy impression about the Panama Canal is that the great revolution it is going to introduce in the trade of the world is in the trade between the east and the west coast of the United States.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFTWe, as Unitarians, may feel that the world is coming our way.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFTWe shall have to begin all over again. [Taft hoped that] the Senators might change their minds, or that the people might change the Senate; instead of which they changed me.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFTI don’t know the man I admire more than [Charles Evans] Hughes. If ever I have the chance I shall offer him the Chief Justiceship.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT