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William Howard Taft

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

Great, Man, Weakness

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.

Safety, American, Brain

William Howard Taft

Some men are graduated from college cum laude some are graduated summa cum laude and some are graduated mirabile dictu.

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.

listening, presidency, president

William Howard Taft

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.

business, economy, government

William Howard Taft

A man never knows exactly how the child of his brain will strike other people.

creativity, doris-kearns-goodwin, taft

William Howard Taft

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.

education, homeschool, homeschooling, learning

William Howard Taft

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

William Howard Taft

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.

business, economy, government

William Howard Taft

A man never knows exactly how the child of his brain will strike other people.

creativity, doris-kearns-goodwin, taft

William Howard Taft

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.

education, homeschool, homeschooling, learning

William Howard Taft

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