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.

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.

Substantial progress toward better things can rarely be taken without developing new evils requiring new remedies.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

Enthusiasm for a cause sometimes warps judgment.

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.

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

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.

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.

The day is not far distant when three Stars and Stripes at three equidistant points will mark our territory: one at the North Pole, another at the Panama Canal, and the third at the South Pole. The whole hemisphere will be ours in fact as, by virtue of our superiority of race, it already is ours morally.

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