Taft Quotes

• Ohio claims they are due a president as they haven't had one since Taft. Look at the United States, they have not had one since Lincoln.

  Will Rogers

  Pregnancy, Ohio, Government

  "How we elect our Presidents". Book by Will Day, p. 9, 1952.

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• Indeed, only one Supreme Court justice in history, one Horace Lurton, nominated by President [John] Taft, had more federal appeals court experience [than Samuel Alito].

  Jon Kyl

  Justice, President, Court

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• William Howard Taft, who he embarrassed in these congressional hearings, attacks him as an emotionalist and a socialist and a cosmopolitan in terms that kind of have an anti-Semitic overtone. And even the pro-Brandeis press supported him in terms that really seem creepy today. There's this piece from Life magazine. It says, "Mr. Brandeis is a Jew. And until now there's never been a Jew on the Supreme Court. Perhaps it's time we have one."

  Jeffrey Rosen

  Creepy, Pieces, Magazines

  "What Would Brandeis Do?". "Amicus" with Dahlia Lithwick, www.slate.com. June 16, 2016.

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• In 1970 or '71, early in the magazine, Michael O'Donoghue did maybe eight pages of a 1958 yearbook, from Ezra Taft Benson High School. But by the time the [book-length] high-school yearbook came around, he didn't want to be involved.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Book, School, Eight

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• We shall have to begin all over again. [Taft hoped that] the Senators might change their minds, or that the people might change the Senate; instead of which they changed me.

  William Howard Taft

  Change, People, Mind

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• I've been demonized as a racist and an extremist. Now, no matter what I say, I mean, I've served in the military with people of all ethnicities and all races but it doesn't matter what I say, I still get demonized and implied to be a racist. So if anybody has any questions on where I stand on that they can ask my good friend Doug Taft who is sitting here on the side and ask him what he thinks about me being a racist.

  Matt Shea

  Inspiring, Military, Mean

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• When I finish as the host of 'Jeopardy!' I'm going to go up to Taft in central California. They have a small college there that teaches you about oil drilling.

  Alex Trebek

  College, Oil, California

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• He (William Howard Taft) had little patience with the unconscious arrogance of conscious wealth and financial success.

  Doris Kearns Goodwin

  Arrogance, Littles, Financial

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• The truth is, the whole administration under Roosevelt was demoralized by the system of dealing directly with subordinates. It wasobviated in the State Department and the War Department under [Secretary of State Elihu] Root and me [Taft was the Secretary of War], because we simply ignored the interference and went on as we chose.... The subordinates gained nothing by his assumption of authority, but it was not so in the other departments.

  William Howard Taft

  War, Roots, Administration

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• . . .a sense of humor can be a great help-particularly a sense of humor about (oneself). William Howard Taft joked about his own corpulence and people loved it; took nothing from his inherent dignity. Lincoln eased tense moments with bawdy stories, and often poked fun at himself-and history honors him for this human quality. A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Art, Fun, Communication

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• She reached up and curled her fingers into mine. “He should take you to dinner.” To say that the mere thought horrified me would have been a grievous understatement. I threw up a little in my mouth then swallowed hard. I told Taft when I recovered, “Just please, for the love of God, find a girl good enough to take home to your mother. And do it soon.” “And stop dating skanks.

  Darynda Jones

  Girl, Mother, Home

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• Salvador [Dali] was brought up in Spain, a country colored by the legends of Hannibal, El Greco, and Cervantes. I was brought up in Ohio, a region steeped in the tradition of Coxey's Army, the Anti-Saloon League, and William Howard Taft.

  James Thurber

  Country, Army, Ohio

  JAMES THURBER (1945). “THE THURBER CARNIVAL”

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• That the government's power under the Taft-Hartley Act to stop a strike by injunction so clearly strengthens the hand of the employer-even though it is used only when a strike threatens
  the national health, welfare, or safety-is a grave blemish and explains much of union resistance to the Act.

  Peter Drucker

  Government, Hands, Safety

  Peter F. Drucker (2011). “The New Society: The Anatomy of Industrial Order”, p.333, Transaction Publishers

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