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William Howard Taft Quotes

«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 am president now, and tired of being kicked around.»
«Don't sit up nights thinking about making me president for that will never come and I have no ambition in that direction. Any party which would nominate me would make a great mistake.»
«Substantial progress toward better things can rarely be taken without developing new evils requiring new remedies.»
«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.»
«In the public interest, therefore, it is better that we lose the services of the exceptions who are good Judges after they are seventy and avoid the presence on the Bench of men who are not able to keep up with the work, or to perform it satisfactorily.»
«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.»
«Presidents may go to the seashore or to the mountains. Cabinet officers may go about the country explaining how fortunate the country is in having such an administration, but the machinery at Washington continues to operate under the army of faithful non-commissioned officers, and the great mass of governmental business is uninterrupted.»
«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.»
«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»

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