▶ 1857; September 1857; September 15th 1857; the United States; North America; …
▶ musician, person, President, judge, politician, …
▶ "the big bill taft", "big bill taft", "the big fat william taft", "big fat william taft", "the fat taft", …"fat taft", "the presidency of william howard taft", "presidency of william howard taft", "the willliam h. taft", "the willliam howard taft", "the taft administration", "the howard taft", "the president taft", "the william h. taft", "the william taft", "the taft"
▶ "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."; "We are all imperfect. We can not expect perfect government."; "The world is not going to be saved by legislation."; "The trouble with me is that I like to talk too much."; "Substantial progress toward better things can rarely be taken without developing new evils requiring new remedies."; …"Socialism proposes no adequate substitute for the motive of enlightened selfishness that to-day is at the basis of all human labor and effort, enterprise and new activity."; "Presidents come and go, but the Supreme Court goes on forever."; "Politics makes me sick."; "No, the only things which do not bother me are the elements. I can overcome them without a fight. All one has to do to get the best of the elements is to stand pat and one will win."; "No tendency is quite so strong in human nature as the desire to lay down rules of conduct for other people."; "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."; "I love judges, and I love courts. They are my ideals, that typify on earth what we shall meet hereafter in heaven under a just God."; "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."; "I do not know much about politics, but I am trying to do the best I can with this administration until the time shall come for me to turn it over to somebody else."; "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."; "I am president now, and tired of being kicked around."; "I am in favor of helping the prosperity of all countries because, when we are all prosperous, the trade with each becomes more valuable to the other."; "I am afraid I am a constant disappointment to my party. The fact of the matter is, the longer I am president the less of a party man I seem to become."; "Failure to accord credit to anyone for what he may have done is a great weakness in any man."; "Enthusiasm for a cause sometimes warps judgment."; "As the Republican platforms says, the welfare of the farmer is vital to that of the whole country."; "Anti-Semitism is a noxious weed that should be cut out. It has no place in America."; "Action for which I become responsible, or for which my administration becomes responsible, shall be within the law."; "A system in which we may have an enforced rest from legislation for two years is not bad."; "A government is for the benefit of all the people."
