Quotes by William Howard Taft

Dont write so that you can be understood, write so that you cant 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.

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

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.

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

Ill 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.

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

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

Failure to accord credit to anyone for what he may have done is a great weakness in any man.

Dont worry over what the newspapers say. I dont. Why should anyone else? I told the truth to the newspaper correspondents - but when you tell the truth to them they are at sea.

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.

Politics makes me sick.

A government is for the benefit of all the people.

The world is not going to be saved by legislation.

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