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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. "

William Howard Taft

Selfishness

Socialism

Today

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" The trouble with me is that I like to talk too much. "

" 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. "

" Action for which I become responsible, or for which my administration becomes responsible, shall be within the law. "

" 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. "

" Don't write so that you can be understood, write so that you can't be misunderstood. "

" I think I might as well give up being a candidate. There are so many people in the country who don't like me. "

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Well

Country

" As the Republican platforms says, the welfare of the farmer is vital to that of the whole country. "

" Politics makes me sick. "

William Howard Taft

Sick

Politics

" No tendency is quite so strong in human nature as the desire to lay down rules of conduct for other people. "

" I'll 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. "

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

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

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

William Howard Taft

I Am

Because

" No, the only things which do not bother me are the elements. I can overcome them without a fight. All one has to do to get the best of the elements is to stand pat and one will win. "

" 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. "

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

" 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

Important

Politics

" 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. "

" The world is not going to be saved by legislation. "

" A government is for the benefit of all the people. "

" The day is not far distant when three Stars and Stripes at three equidistant points will mark our territory: one at the North Pole, another at the Panama Canal, and the third at the South Pole. The whole hemisphere will be ours in fact as, by virtue of our superiority of race, it already is ours morally. "

" I do not know much about politics, but I am trying to do the best I can with this administration until the time shall come for me to turn it over to somebody else. "

" I am president now, and tired of being kicked around. "

" Presidents come and go, but the Supreme Court goes on forever. "

William Howard Taft

Supreme Court

Forever

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Enthusiasm for a cause sometimes warps judgment. "