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William Howard Taft Quotes

«Politics makes me sick.»
«The President can exercise no power which cannot be fairly and reasonably traced to some specific grant of power . . . in the Federal Constitution or in an act of Congress passed in pursuance thereof. There is no undefined residuum of power which he can exercise because it seems to him to be in the public interest.»
«I have come to the conclusion that the major part of the work of a President is to increase the gate receipts of expositions and fairs and bring tourists to town.»
«Failure to accord credit to anyone for what he may have done is a great weakness in any man»
Author: William Howard Taft (President) | About: Weakness | Keywords: accord
«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.»
«The President cannot make clouds to rain and cannot make the corn to grow, he cannot make business good; although when these things occur, political parties do claim some credit for the good things that have happened in this way»
«Anti-Semitism is a noxious weed that should be cut out. It has no place in America.»
«The diplomacy of the present administration has sought to respond to modern ideas of commercial intercourse. This policy has been characterized as substituting dollars for bullets. It is one that appeals alike to idealistic humanitarian sentiments, to the dictates of sound policy and strategy, and to legitimate commercial aims.»
«We live in a stage of politics, where legislators seem to regard the passage of laws as much more important than the results of their enforcement.»
«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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