William Howard Taft Quotes
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Repeat mantra: Donuts are not vitamins, donuts are not.
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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.
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There is only one thing I want to say about Ohio that has a political tinge, and that is that I think a mistake has been made of recent years in Ohio in failing to continue as our representatives the same people term after term. I do not need to tell a Washington audience, among whom there are certainly some who have been interested in legislation, that length of service in the House and in the Senate is what gives influence.
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I am president now, and tired of being kicked around.
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Politics make me sick
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That all may be so, but when I begin to exercise that power I am not conscious of the power, but only of the limitations imposed on me.
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The admission of Oriental immigrants who cannot be amalgamated with our people has been made the subject either of prohibitory clauses in our treaties and statutes or of strict administrative regulations secured by diplomatic negotiations. I sincerely hope that we may continue to minimize the evils likely to arise from such immigration without unnecessary friction and by mutual concessions between self-respecting governments.
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The true Mason never hesitates to use the working tools to correct personal flaws.
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The 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 Taft
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I 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.
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We have a government of limited power under the Constitution, and we have got to work out our problems on the basis of law.
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The City that knows how.
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We, as Unitarians, may feel that the world is coming our way.
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I am in favor of helping the prosperity of all countries because, when we are all prosperous, the trade with each becomes more valuable to the other.
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I think I might as well give up being a candidate. There are so many people in the country who don't like me.
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The true Mason ever strives to cultivate Masonry in his/her life to the fullest degree possible.
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The prosperity of Masonry as a means of strengthening our religion and propagating true brotherly love, is one of the dearest wishes of my heart, which, I trust, will be gratified by the help of the Grand Architect of the Universe.
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Golf in the interest of good health and good manners. It promotes self-restraint and affords a chance to play the man and act the gentleman.
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If they will play fair I will play fair, but if they won't then I reserve all my rights to do anything I find myself able to do.
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As the Republican platforms says, the welfare of the farmer is vital to that of the whole country.
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I 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.
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The diplomacy of the present administration has sought to respond to the modern idea of commercial intercourse. This policy has been characterized as substituting dollars for bullets.
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No tendency is quite so strong in human nature as the desire to lay down rules of conduct for other people.
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There is no legislation--I care not what it is--tariff, railroads, corporations, or of a general political character, that all equals in importance the putting of our banking and currency system on the sound basis proposed in the National Monetary Commission plan.