We can't have a decent government unless those in power exercise self restraint.

My impression about the Panama Canal is that the great revolution it is going to introduce in the trade of the world is in the trade between the east and the west coast of the United States.

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.

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

The President can exercise no power which cannot be fairly and reasonably traced to some specific grant of power in the Federal Constitution or in an act of Congress passed in pursuance thereof. There is no undefined residuum of power which he can exercise because it seems to him to be in the public interest.

We passed the Children's Bureau bill calculated to prevent children from being employed too early in factories.

We are all imperfect. We can not expect perfect government.