“A National Government cannot create good times. It cannot make the rain to fall, the sun to shine, or the crops to grow, but it can, by pursuing a meddlesome policy, attempting to change economic conditions, and frightening the investment of capital, prevent a prosperity and a revival of business which might otherwise have taken place.”

“He (William Howard Taft) had little patience with the unconscious arrogance of conscious wealth and financial success.”

“Someone threw a cabbage at William Howard Taft. That didn't bother Taft. He quipped, "I see that one of my adversaries has lost his head.”

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

“The world is not going to be saved by legislation.”

“Politics makes me sick.”

“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 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.”

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

“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.”

“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. ”