Top 15 William Howard Taft Quotes

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

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.

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

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.

Too many people don’t care what happens so long as it doesn’t happen to them.

I'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.

A man never knows exactly how the child of his brain will strike other people.

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

A National Government cannot create good times. It cannot make the rain to fall, the sun to shine, or the crops to grow, but it can, by pursuing a meddlesome policy, attempting to change economic conditions, and frightening the investment of capital, prevent a prosperity and a revival of business which might otherwise have taken place.

Enthusiasm for a cause sometimes warps judgement.

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.

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.

We have a government of limited power under the Constitution, and we have got to work out our problems on the basis of law.

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

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