William Howard Taft Quotes

Some men are graduated from college cum laude some are graduated summa cum laude and some are graduated mirabile dictu.

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.

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

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

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

William Howard Taft

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

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

William Howard Taft