William Howard Taft Quotes

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.

~ William Howard Taft

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

~ William Howard Taft

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.

~ William Howard Taft

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

~ William Howard Taft

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.

~ William Howard Taft

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

~ William Howard Taft

Don't worry over what the newspapers say. I don't. Why should anyone else? I told the truth to the newspaper correspondents - but when you tell the truth to them they are at sea.

~ William Howard Taft

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.

~ William Howard Taft

Politics makes me sick.

~ William Howard Taft

A government is for the benefit of all the people.

~ William Howard Taft

The world is not going to be saved by legislation.

~ William Howard Taft

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

~ William Howard Taft