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William Howard Taft was American politician, 27th President of the United States (in office from 1909 to 1913). Explore interesting quotes on other.
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“No tendency is quite so strong in human nature as the desire to lay down rules of conduct for other people.”

William Howard Taft

Quoted in Robert J. Schoenberg (1992), Mr. Capone, apparently referring to the temperance movement.
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“Next to the right of liberty, the right of property is the most important individual right guaranteed by the Constitution and the one which, united with that of personal liberty, has contributed more to the growth of civilization than any other institution established by the human race.”

William Howard Taft

Popular Government: Its Essence, Its Permanence and Its Perils, chapter 4, p.90 (1913).

“I am in favor of helping the prosperity of all countries because, when we are all prosperous, the trade of each becomes more valuable to the other.”

William Howard Taft

Address at the Hotel Fairmont in San Francisco (6 October 1909).

“One of the marvelous things about him is that he is strong enough to force the men who dislike him the most to stand by him. By far he is the strongest man before the people to-day except Roosevelt. I think his greatest fault is his failure to accord credit to anyone for what he may have done. This is a great weakness in any man. I think it was one of the strongest things about Roosevelt. He never tried to minimize what other people did and often exaggerated it.”

William Howard Taft

On Charles Evans Hughes, in November 1909, as quoted in Taft and Roosevelt : The intimate letters of Archie Butt (1930) by Archibald Willingham Butt, p. 224; this has sometimes been paraphrased: "Failure to accord credit to anyone for what he may have done is a great weakness in any man."

“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.”

William Howard Taft

Quoted in Archibald W. Butt (1930), Taft and Roosevelt.
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