16 Quotes & Sayings By William Howard Taft

William Howard Taft, the 27th President of the United States, was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, on March 18, 1857. His father was a senator and his uncle was President William Howard Taft. He attended Yale University and graduated in 1878 with a Bachelor of Arts degree. He then studied law at Cincinnati Law School and practiced law in Cincinnati before being elected to Congress in 1887 Read more

He served in both houses of Congress, but was defeated for the Democratic nomination for president in his bid for the White House in 1900. He served as Secretary of War under President Theodore Roosevelt from 1909 to 1913.

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Don't write so that you can be understood, write so that you can't be misunderstood. William Howard Taft
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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
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A man never knows exactly how the child of his brain will strike other people. William Howard Taft
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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
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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
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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
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Some men are graduated from college cum laude some are graduated summa cum laude and some are graduated mirabile dictu. 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
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Failure to accord credit to anyone for what he may have done is a great weakness in any man. William Howard Taft
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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. William Howard Taft
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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. William Howard Taft
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Politics makes me sick. William Howard Taft
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A government is for the benefit of all the people. William Howard Taft
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The world is not going to be saved by legislation. William Howard Taft
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We are all imperfect. We can not expect perfect government. William Howard Taft