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Attributed quotes — William Howard Taft

1857–1930 United States

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8 quotes

No tendency is quite so strong in human nature as the desire to lay down rules of conduct for other people.

Attributed Robert J. Schoenberg (1992)

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

Attributed David G. Plotkin (1955)

Enthusiasm for a cause sometimes warps judgment.

Attributed David G. Plotkin (1955)

Politics, when I am in it, makes me sick.

Attributed Archibald W. Butt (1930)

Presidents come and go, but the Supreme Court goes on forever.

Attributed Henry Fowles Pringle (1939)

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.

Attributed Archibald W. Butt (1930)

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.

Attributed Henry Pringle (1939)

The publishers profess to be the agents of heaven in establishing virtue and therefore that they ought to receive some subsidy from the government. I can ask no stronger refutation to this claim … than the utterly unscrupulous methods pursued by them in seeking to influence Congress on this subject.

Attributed Henry Fowles Pringle (1939)

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