More From William Howard Taft
- "No tendency is quite so strong in human nature as the desire to lay down rules of conduct for other people."
- "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."
- "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."
More In Politics
- "I might be writing what people expect me to write, writing from that place where I might be ruled by economic considerations. To overcome that, I started working with my dreams, because I’m not so censored when I use dream material."― Kathy Acker
- "I played by the rules of politics as I found them."― Richard M. Nixon
- "The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal – that you can gather votes like box tops – is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process."― Adlai E. Stevenson