William Howard Taft President Quotations

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.

Well, I have one consolation. No candidate was ever elected ex-president by such a large majority!

One cannot always be sure of the truth of what one hears if he happens to be President of the United States.

I have come to the conclusion that the major part of the president is to increase the gate receipts of expositions and fairs and bring tourists to town.

The truth is that in my present life I don't remember that I ever was president

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.

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.

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.

I am glad to be going. This is the lonesomest pace in the world?

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.

Repeat mantra: Donuts are not vitamins, donuts are not...

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

Next to the right of liberty, the right of property is the most important individual right guaranteed by the Constitution . .

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.

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

The world is not going to be saved by legislation.

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