William Howard Taft

"No tendency is quite so strong in human nature as the desire to lay down rules of conduct for other people."

"Some men are graduated from college cum laude, some are graduated summa cum laude, and some are graduated mirabile dictu."

"Politics, when I am in it, makes me sick."

"Ill be damned if I am not getting tired of this. It seems to be the profession of a President simply to hear other people talk."

"Dont worry over what the newspapers say. I dont. Why should anyone else? I told the truth to the newspaper correspondents - but when you tell the truth to them they are at sea."

"Presidents come and go, but the Supreme Court goes on forever."