William Howard Taft Quotes

There is only one thing I wast 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.

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

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.

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

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

If I run as the regular Republican nominee, I may go down to defeat if a bolt is started by Roosevelt, but I will retain the regular organization of the party as a nucleus about which the conservative people who are in favor of maintaining constitutional government can gather, both from the Democratic and Republican parties, and we will have two radicals and one conservative.

I 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.

I am going to do what I think is best for the country, within my jurisdiction and power, and then let the rest take care of itself.

Next to the right of liberty, the right of property is the most important individual right guaranteed by the Constitution and the one which, united with that of personal liberty, has contributed more to the growth of civilization than any other institution established by the human race.

No tendency is quite so strong in human nature as the desire to lay down rules of conduct for other people.

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

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

Anti-Semitism is a noxious weed that should be cut out. It has no place in America.

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

The world is not going to be saved by legislation.