William Howard Taft Quotes About Children

Quotes about: Children

• On the whole, yes, I would rather be the Chief Justice of the United States, and a quieter life than that which becomes at the White House is more in keeping with the temperament, but when taken into consideration that I go into history as President, and my children and my children's children are the better placed on account of that fact, I am inclined to think that to be President well compensates one for all the trials and criticisms he has to bear and undergo.

  William Howard Taft

  Children, Taken, Thinking

• We passed the Children's Bureau bill calculated to prevent children from being employed too early in factories.

  William Howard Taft

  Children, Bills, Child Labor

• A man never knows exactly how the child of his brain will strike other people.

  William Howard Taft

  Children, Men, People

• Roosevelt could always keep ahead with his work, but I cannot do it, and I know it is a grievous fault, but it is too late to remedy it. The country must take me as it found me. Wasn't it your mother who had a servant girl who said it was no use for her to try to hurry, that she was a "Sunday chil" and no "Sunday chil" could hurry? I don't think I am a Sunday child, but I ought to have been; then I would have had an excuse for always being late.

  William Howard Taft

  Funny, Girl, Mother

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