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Quotes by William Howard Taft

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
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.
– William Howard Taft
I think I might as well give up being a candidate. There are so many people in the country who don't like me.
– 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
Politics makes me sick.
– William Howard Taft
Politics, when I am in it, it makes me sick.
– William Howard Taft
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
The trouble with me is that I like to talk too much.
– William Howard Taft
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
No tendency is quite so strong in human nature as the desire to lay down rules of conduct for other people.
– William Howard Taft
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
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.
– William Howard Taft
Failure to accord credit to anyone for what he may have done is a great weakness in any man.
– William Howard Taft