William Howard Taft

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.

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

Aquele que só for atraído pelas honrarias e pela ambição do mando, sem esperança de produzir trabalho útil, é indigno da posição que disputa e incapaz de exercer o poder.

Too many people don’t care what happens so long as it doesn’t happen to them.

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

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

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.

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.

If they will play fair I will play fair, but if they won't then I reserve all my rights to do anything I find myself able to do.

Enthusiasm for a cause sometimes warps judgement.

I would like to have an ample fund to spread the light of Republicanism, but I am willing to undergo the disadvantage to make certain that in the future we shall reduce the power of money in politics for unworthy purposes.

I am not in favor of having government do anything that private citizens can do as good or better

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

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.

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