| As a people, we have the problem of making our forests outlast this generation, or iron outlast this century, and our coal the next; not merely as a matter of convenience or comfort, but as a matter of stern necessity. William Howard Taft Quotes |
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| As the Republican platforms says, the welfare of the farmer is vital to that of the whole country. William Howard Taft |
| Don't sit up nights thinking about making me president for that will never come and I have no ambition in that direction. Any party which would nominate me would make a great mistake. William Howard Taft Quotes |
| Enthusiasm for a cause sometimes warps judgment William Howard Taft Sayings |
| Failure to accord credit to anyone for what he may have done is a great weakness in any man William Howard Taft |
| I am afraid I am a constant disappointment to my party. The fact of the matter is, the longer I am president the less of a party man I seem to become. William Howard Taft |
| I do not believe in the divinity of Christ, and there are many other of the postulates of the orthodox creed to which I cannot subscribe William Howard Taft |
| 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. William Howard Taft |
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| 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 |
| It is important, of course, that controversies be settled right, but there are many civil questions which arise between individuals in which it is not so important the controversy be settled one way or another as that it be settled. Of course a settlement of a controversy on a fundamentally wrong principle of law is greatly to be deplored, but there must of necessity be many rules governing the relations between members of the same society that are more important in that their establishment creates a known rule of action than that they proceed on one principle or another. Delay works always for the man with the longest purse. William Howard Taft |
| Next to the right of liberty, the right of property is the most important individual right guaranteed by the Constitution and the one which, united with that of personal liberty, has contributed more to the growth of civilization than any other institution established by the human race. William Howard Taft Remarks |
| No tendency is quite so strong in human nature as the desire to lay down rules of conduct for other people. William Howard Taft Popular Quotes |
| Politics makes me sick. William Howard Taft |
| Politics, when I am in it, it makes me sick. William Howard Taft Quotes |
| Socialism proposes no adequate substitute for the motive of enlightened selfishness that to-day is at the basis of all human labor and effort, enterprise and new activity. William Howard Taft |
| Substantial progress toward better things can rarely be taken without developing new evils requiring new remedies. William Howard Taft Popular Quotes |
| The cheerful loser is a sort of winner. William Howard Taft Sayings |
| The President cannot make clouds to rain and cannot make the corn to grow, he cannot make business good; although when these things occur, political parties do claim some credit for the good things that have happened in this way William Howard Taft |
| There is nothing so despicable as a secret society that is based upon religious prejudice and that will attempt to defeat a man because of his religious beliefs. Such a society is like a cockroach -- it thrives in the dark. So do those who combine for such an end. William Howard Taft Adages |
| We are all imperfect. We can not expect perfect government. William Howard Taft |
| We are imperfect. We cannot expect perfect government. William Howard Taft Remarks |
| 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 Popular Quotes |
