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

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    “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)

    “It does seem strange that the only place in the government which I would have liked to fill myself I am forced to give to another.”
    —William Howard Taft (1857–1930)

    “Some of the offers that have come to me would never have come if I had not been President. That means these people are trying to hire not Calvin Coolidge, but a former President of the United States. I can’t make that kind of use of the office.... I can’t do anything that might take away from the Presidency any of its dignity, or any of the faith people have in it.”
    —Calvin Coolidge (1872–1933)