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

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.

The intoxication of power rapidly sobers off in the knowledge of its restrictions and under the prompt reminder of an ever-present and not always considerate press, as well as the kindly suggestions that not infrequently come from Congress.

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.