William Howard Taft/presidency 1909%e2%80%931913

Famous quotes containing the words howard, taft and/or presidency:

    “I don’t know whither we are drifting, but I do know where every real thinking patriot will stand in the end, and that’s by the Constitution.”
    —William Howard Taft (1857–1930)

    “The diplomacy of the present administration has sought to respond to the modern idea of commercial intercourse. This policy has been characterized as substituting dollars for bullets.”
    —William Howard Taft (1857–1930)

    “... how often the Presidency has simply meant that a man shall be abused, distrusted, and worked to death while he is filling the great office, and that he should drop into unmerited oblivion when he has left the White House ...”
    —M. E. W. Sherwood (1826–1903)