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.

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

The trouble with me is that I like to talk too much.

I think I might as well give up being a candidate. There are so many people in the country who don't like me.

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

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

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.

Action for which I become responsible, or for which my administration becomes responsible, shall be within the law.

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.

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.

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.