147 Quotes by William Howard Taft

We passed the Children's Bureau bill calculated to prevent children from being employed too early in factories.

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.

We are imperfect. We cannot expect perfect government.

The cheerful loser is a sort of winner.

We must dare to be great; and we must realize that greatness is the fruit of toil and sacrifice and high courage.

Masonry aims at the promotion of morality and higher living by the cultivation of the social side of man, the rousing in him of the instincts of charity and love of his kind. It rests surely on the foundation of the brotherhood of man and the fatherhood of God.

The City that knows how.

The scope of modern government in what it can and ought to accomplish for its people has been widened far beyond the principles laid down by the old "laissez faire" school of political rights, and the widening has met popular approval.

Enthusiasm for a cause sometimes warps judgment.