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William Howard Taft

William Howard Taft

William Howard Taft föddes den 15 september 1857 och dog den 8 marts 1930 - (1909-13).
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The intoxication of power rapidly sobers off in the knowledge of its restrictions and under the prompt reminder of an ever-present and not always considerate press, as well as the kindly suggestions that not infrequently come from Congress

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

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

The President can exercise no power which cannot be fairly and reasonably traced to some specific grant of power . . . in the Federal Constitution or in an act of Congress passed in pursuance thereof. There is no undefined residuum of power which he can exercise because it seems to him to be in the public interest.

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.

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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.

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.

A government is for the benefit of all the people. . . .

We, as Unitarians, may feel that the world is coming our way.

Nobody ever drops in for the evening.

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.

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.

We are all imperfect. We can not expect perfect government.

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

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