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He (William Howard Taft) had little patience with the unconscious arrogance of conscious wealth and financial success. -- Doris Kearns Goodwin
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
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
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
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
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
The Yale graduate who had refused to read outside the course curriculum (the future Pres. Taft) suddenly found himself inspired. -- Doris Kearns Goodwin
If he (Teddy Roosevelt) lacked Will Taft's immediate charisma, gradually his classmates could not resist the spell of his highly original personality. -- Doris Kearns Goodwin
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
The American people are strange in their attitudes toward their idols," he (Taft) mused. They lead them on and then "cut their legs from under them," simply "to make their fall all the greater. -- Doris Kearns Goodwin
(Taft's mother's) losing her firstborn had convinced her that children are treasures lent not given and that they may be recalled at any time. Parents, she firmly believed, could never love their children too much. -- Doris Kearns Goodwin
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Taft was Roosevelt's handpicked successor. I didn't know how deep the friendship was between the two men until I read their almost four hundred letters, stretching back the to early '30s. It made me realize the heartbreak when they ruptured was much more than a political division. -- Doris Kearns Goodwin

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