William Howard Taft Short Quotes

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The world is not going to be saved by legislation.

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

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The welfare of the farmer is vital to that of the whole country.

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I am glad to be going. The White House is the lonesomest place in the world.

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

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

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A system in which we may have an enforced rest from legislation for two years is not bad.

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Substantial progress toward better things can rarely be taken with out developing new evils requiring new remedies.

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

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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.

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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.

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I am in favor of helping the prosperity of all countries because, when we are all prosperous, the trade of each becomes more valuable to the other.

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I am a Unitarian. I believe in God. I do not believe in the divinity of Christ, and there are many postulates of the orthodox creed to which I cannot subscribe.

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I have come to the conclusion that the major part of the work of a President is to increase the gate receipts of expositions and fairs and bring tourists to town.

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Socialism proposes no adequate substitute for the motive of enlightened selfishness that today is at the basis of all human labor and effort, enterprise and new activity.

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The diplomacy of the present administration has sought to respond to the modern idea of commercial intercourse. This policy has been characterized as substituting dollars for bullets.

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My impression about the Panama Canal is that the great revolution it is going to introduce in the trade of the world is in the trade between the east and the west coast of the United States.

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