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Top 80 William Howard Taft Quotes (2024 Update)

William Howard Taft Quote: “We must dare to be great; and we must realize that greatness is the fruit of toil and sacrifice and high courage.”
William Howard Taft Quote: “Don’t write so that you can be understood, write so that you can’t be misunderstood.”
William Howard Taft Quote: “Too many people don’t care what happens so long as it doesn’t happen to them.”
William Howard Taft Quote: “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.”
William Howard Taft Quote: “Presidents come and go, but the Supreme Court goes on forever.”
William Howard Taft Quote: “Repeat mantra: Donuts are not vitamins, donuts are not...”
William Howard Taft Quote: “The Masonic system represents a stupendous and beautiful fabric, founded on universal purity, to rule and direct our passions, to have faith and love in God, and charity toward man.”
William Howard Taft Quote: “We are all imperfect. We can not expect perfect government.”
William Howard Taft Quote: “The policy of dollar diplomacy is one that appeals alike to idealistic humanitarian sentiments, to dictates of sound policy, and strategy, and to legitimate commercial aims.”
William Howard Taft Quote: “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.”
William Howard Taft Quote: “A government is for the benefit of all the people.”
William Howard Taft Quote: “The underlying principle of Masonry is the fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man. In this war we are engaging in upholding these principles and our enemies are attacking them.”
William Howard Taft Quote: “The man with the average mentality, but with control, with a definite goal, and a clear conception of how it can be gained, and above all, with the power of application and labor, wins in the end.”
William Howard Taft Quote: “The trouble with me is that I like to talk too much.”
William Howard Taft Quote: “The true Mason is ever vigilant for subtle traces of character and personality flaws which daily experience brings out.”
William Howard Taft Quote: “Masonry aims at the promotion of morality and higher living by the cultivation of the social side of man, the rousing in him of the instincts of charity and love of his kind. It rests surely on the foundation of the brotherhood of man and the fatherhood of God.”
William Howard Taft Quote: “My impression about the Panama Canal is that the great revolution it is going to introduce in the trade of the world is in the trade between the east and the west coast of the United States.”
William Howard Taft Quote: “No tendency is quite so strong in human nature as the desire to lay down rules of conduct for other people.”
William Howard Taft Quote: “The diplomacy of the present administration has sought to respond to the modern idea of commercial intercourse. This policy has been characterized as substituting dollars for bullets.”
William Howard Taft Quote: “We passed the Children’s Bureau bill calculated to prevent children from being employed too early in factories.”
William Howard Taft Quote: “Failure to accord credit to anyone for what he may have done is a great weakness in any man.”
William Howard Taft Quote: “Golf in the interest of good health and good manners. It promotes self-restraint and affords a chance to play the man and act the gentleman.”
William Howard Taft Quote: “The true Mason never hesitates to use the working tools to correct personal flaws.”
William Howard Taft Quote: “The true Mason takes full responsibility for the condition of his character and ever strives for its perfection.”
William Howard Taft Quote: “The truth is that in my present life I don’t remember that I ever was president.”
William Howard Taft Quote: “The President cannot make clouds to rain and cannot make the corn to grow. He cannot make business good, although when these things occur, political parties do claim some credit for the good things that have happened in this way.”
William Howard Taft Quote: “Substantial progress toward better things can rarely be taken without developing new evils requiring new remedies.”
William Howard Taft Quote: “The City that knows how.”
William Howard Taft Quote: “Well, I have one consolation. No candidate was ever elected ex-president by such a large majority!”
William Howard Taft Quote: “A man never knows exactly how the child of his brain will strike other people.”
William Howard Taft Quote: “The game of baseball is a clean, straight game, and it summons to its presence everybody who enjoys clean, straight athletics. It furnishes amusement to the thousands and thousands.”
William Howard Taft Quote: “The scope of modern government in what it can and ought to accomplish for its people has been widened far beyond the principles laid down by the old “laissez faire” school of political rights, and the widening has met popular approval.”
William Howard Taft Quote: “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.”
William Howard Taft Quote: “The cheerful loser is a sort of winner.”
William Howard Taft Quote: “There is no legislation – I care not what it is – tariff, railroads, corporations, or of a general political character, that all equals in importance the putting of our banking and currency system on the sound basis proposed in the National Monetary Commission plan.”
William Howard Taft Quote: “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 Quote: “The Masonic Fraternity is one of the most helpful mediating and conserving organizations among men, and I have never wavered from that childhood impression, but it has stood steadfastly with me through the busy, vast hurrying years.”
William Howard Taft Quote: “The prosperity of Masonry as a means of strengthening our religion and propagating true brotherly love, is one of the dearest wishes of my heart, which, I trust, will be gratified by the help of the Grand Architect of the Universe.”
William Howard Taft Quote: “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.”
William Howard Taft Quote: “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 Quote: “The true Mason does not hold or teach the attitude that, I am a Master Mason now and thus I no longer need to be concerned with using the working tools because they were given in the earlier degrees.”
William Howard Taft Quote: “The world is not going to be saved by legislation.”
William Howard Taft Quote: “The true Mason always carries his working tools everywhere.”
William Howard Taft Quote: “Constitutions are checks upon the hasty action of the majority. They are the self-imposed restraints of a whole people upon a majority of them to secure sober action and a respect for the rights of the minority.”
William Howard Taft Quote: “Anti-Semitism is a noxious weed that should be cut out. It has no place in America.”
William Howard Taft Quote: “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 Quote: “The true Mason is the Tiler of the Temple of the Heart.”
William Howard Taft Quote: “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 Quote: “As a people, we have the problem of making our forests outlast this generation, or iron outlast this century, and our coal the next; not merely as a matter of convenience or comfort, but as a matter of stern necessity.”
William Howard Taft Quote: “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.”
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