American - President | September 15, 1857 - March 8, 1930
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.
William Howard Taft
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Substantial progress toward better things can rarely be taken without developing new evils requiring new remedies.
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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.
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Enthusiasm for a cause sometimes warps judgment.
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Politics makes me sick.
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A system in which we may have an enforced rest from legislation for two years is not bad.
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The world is not going to be saved by legislation.
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I am president now, and tired of being kicked around.
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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.
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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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I do not believe in the divinity of Christ, and there are many other of the postulates of the orthodox creed to which I cannot subscribe.
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I do not know much about politics, but I am trying to do the best I can with this administration until the time shall come for me to turn it over to somebody else.
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