William Howard Taft idézet

William Howard Taft az Amerikai Egyesült Államok 27. elnöke. 1909-től 1913-ig töltötte be az elnöki tisztséget. Wikipedia  

✵ 15. szeptember 1857 – 8. március 1930
William Howard Taft fénykép
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William Howard Taft: Idézetek angolul

“Enthusiasm for a cause sometimes warps judgment.”

Quoted in David G. Plotkin (1955), Dictionary of American Maxims.
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“The President so fully represents his party”

William Howard Taft Essential Writings and Addresses. Edited by David H. Burton. Faitleigh Dickinson University Press (2009). Chapter 1: Political Analyses. Subchapter: The President and His Powers, page 149-150. https://books.google.de/books?id=KiWFtHXQDOIC&pg=PA149&lpg=PA149&dq=that+they+make+him+responsible+for+all+the+sins+of+omission+and+of+commission+of+society+at+large.&source=bl&ots=Zy5G9PEz2_&sig=kGqYf643TGdpt-tT-9CWD2ex9LI&hl=de&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiBxbPsi6fQAhXsKcAKHcV4AH0Q6AEIJjAC#v=onepage&q=that%20they%20make%20him%20responsible%20for%20all%20the%20sins%20of%20omission%20and%20of%20commission%20of%20society%20at%20large.&f=false
Kontextus: The President so fully represents his party, which secures political power by its promise to the people, and the whole government is so identified in the minds of the people with his personality that they make him responsible for all the sins of omission and of commission of society at large. This would be ludicrous if it did not have sometimes serious results. 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 things that have happened in this way. He has no power of state legislation, which covers a very wide field and which comes in many respects much closer to the happiness of the people than the Federal Government.

“The publishers profess to be the agents of heaven in establishing virtue”

Quoted in Henry Fowles Pringle (1939), The Life and Times of William Howard Taft, referring to a postal rate increase affecting popular magazines.
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Kontextus: 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.

“I am a Unitarian. I believe in God. I do not believe in the divinity of Christ, and there are many postulates of the orthodox creed to which I cannot subscribe.”

Letter to Yale University (1899), quoted in Henry F. Pringle, William Howard Taft: The Life and Times, vol. 1, p. 45 (1939).

“The truth is that in my present life I don’t remember that I ever was president.”

Correspondence (1925), quoted in James Chace (2004), 1912: Wilson, Roosevelt, Taft & Debs

“The welfare of the farmer is vital to that of the whole country.”

The Farmer and the Republican Party, address in Hot Springs, Virginia (5 August 1908) http://www.authentichistory.com/1900s/1908election/19080805_William_H_Taft-The_Farmer_and_The_Republican_Party.html.

“Anti-Semitism is a noxious weed that should be cut out. It has no place in America.”

"Anti-Semitism in the United States", address to the Anti Defamation League in Chicago, Illinois (23 December 1920).

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

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

Quoted in Robert J. Schoenberg (1992), Mr. Capone, apparently referring to the temperance movement.
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“If humor be the safety of our race, then it is due largely to the infusion into the American people of the Irish brain.”

Irish Humor, address in Hot Springs, Virginia (5 August 1908) http://www.authentichistory.com/1900s/1908election/19080805_William_H_Taft-Irish_Humor.html.

“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.”

Letter of Archibald Butt to Clara F. Butt (1 June 1909); reprinted in The Intimate Letters of Archie Butt (Doubleday, Doran, & Co., 1930).

“We are all imperfect. We can not expect perfect government.”

Address at a banquet given by the Board of Trade and Chamber of Commerce of Washington, D.C., May 8, 1909.; found in Presidential Addresses and State Papers of William Howard Taft, vol. 1, chapter 7, p. 82 (1910).

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

Quoted in Henry Fowles Pringle (1939), The Life and Times of William Howard Taft.
Attributed

“The world is not going to be saved by legislation.”

Forrás: Our Chief Magistrate and His Powers (Columbia University Press, 1916), Chapter 6.

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