I am glad to be going. This is the lonesomest pace in the world?

Too many people don't care what happens so long as it doesn't happen to them.

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

I am in favor of helping the prosperity of all countries because, when we are all prosperous, the trade with each becomes more valuable to the other.

The trouble with me is that I like to talk too much.

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.

Anyone who has taken the oath I have just taken must feel a heavy weight of responsibility. If not, he has no conception of the powers and duties of the office.