147 Quotes by William Howard Taft

I think I might as well give up being a candidate. There are so many people in the country who don't like me.

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.

Next to the right of liberty, the right of property is the most important individual right guaranteed by the Constitution . .

A system in which we may have an enforced rest from legislation for two years is not bad.

I think it is a wise course for laborers to unite to defend their interests.... I think the employer who declines to deal with organized labor and to recognize it as a proper element in the settlement of wage controversies is behind the times.... Of course, when organized labor permits itself to sympathize with violent methods or undue duress, it is not entitled to our sympathy.

The trouble with me is that I like to talk too much.

We can't have a decent government unless those in power exercise self restraint.

Constitutions are checks upon the hasty action of the majority. They are the self-imposed restraints of a whole people upon a majority of them to secure sober action and a respect for the rights of the minority.

I am president now, and tired of being kicked around.