William Howard Taft Quotes

Aquele que só for atraído pelas honrarias e pela ambição do mando, sem esperança de produzir trabalho útil, é indigno da posição que disputa e incapaz de exercer o poder.

If humor be the safety of our race, then it is due largely to the infusion into the American people of the Irish brain.

We are all imperfect. We can not expect perfect government.

It is one of the deepest wounds that I have had as an American and a lover of the Constitution and a believer in progressive conservatism, that such a man as Brandeis could be put on the Court.

Presidents may go to the seashore or to the mountains. Cabinet officers may go about the country explaining how fortunate the country is in having such an administration, but the machinery at Washington continues to operate under the army of faithful non-commissioned officers, and the great mass of governmental business is uninterrupted.

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.

Presidents come and go, but the Supreme Court goes on forever.

The truth is that in my present life I don’t remember that I ever was president.

Socialism proposes no adequate substitute for the motive of enlightened selfishness that to-day is at the basis of all human labor and effort, enterprise and new activity.

Unless education promotes character making, unless it helps men to be more moral, more just to their fellows, more law abiding, more discriminatingly patriotic and public spirited, it is not worth the trouble taken to furnish it.

Some men are graduated from college cum laude, some are graduated summa cum laude, and some are graduated mirabile dictu.

The welfare of the farmer is vital to that of the whole country.

I am not in favor of having government do anything that private citizens can do as good or better

Don't write so that you can be understood, write so that you can't be misunderstood.

I would like to have an ample fund to spread the light of Republicanism, but I am willing to undergo the disadvantage to make certain that in the future we shall reduce the power of money in politics for unworthy purposes.