“Unless education promotes character making, unless it helps men to be more moral, more just to their fellows, more law abiding, more discriminatingly patriotic and public spirited, it is not worth the trouble taken to furnish it.”
“Unless education promotes character making, unless it helps men to be more moral, more just to their fellows, more law abiding, more discriminatingly patriotic and public spirited, it is not worth the trouble taken to furnish it.”
William Howard Taft
“He (William Howard Taft) had little patience with the unconscious arrogance of conscious wealth and financial success.”
Doris Kearns Goodwin, The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism“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.”
Judith St. George, So You Want to Be President?“We are all imperfect. We can not expect perfect government.”
William Howard Taft“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.”
William Howard Taft“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.”
William Howard Taft“Failure to accord credit to anyone for what he may have done is a great weakness in any man.”
William Howard Taft“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.”
William Howard Taft“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. ”
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