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A system in which we may have an enforced rest from legislation for two years is not bad.

William Howard Taft

I am president now, and tired of being kicked around.

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.

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.

Failure to accord credit to anyone for what he may have done is a great weakness in any man.

Enthusiasm for a cause sometimes warps judgment.

A government is for the benefit of all the people.

William Howard Taft

Government

People

Anti-Semitism is a noxious weed that should be cut out. It has no place in America.

William Howard Taft

America

I do not believe in the divinity of Christ, and there are many other of the postulates of the orthodox creed to which I cannot subscribe.

William Howard Taft

Christ

Divinity

As the Republican platforms says, the welfare of the farmer is vital to that of the whole country.

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.

No tendency is quite so strong in human nature as the desire to lay down rules of conduct for other people.

Socialism proposes no adequate substitute for the motive of enlightened selfishness that today is at the basis of all human labor and effort, enterprise and new activity.

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

William Howard Taft

Court

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.