Anti-Semitism is a noxious weed that should be cut out. It has no place in America.
Anti-semitismo nos Estados Unidos; discurso para a Liga Anti Difamação (Anti Defamation League) em Chicago, Illinois (23 de dezembro de 1920)
William Howard Taft Frases famosas
“O bem-estar do agricultor é vital para todo o país.”
The welfare of the farmer is vital to that of the whole country.
O Agricultor e o Partido Republicano (The Farmer and the Republican Party); discurso em Hot Springs, Virginia (5 de agosto de 1908) http://www.authentichistory.com/1900s/1908election/19080805_William_H_Taft-The_Farmer_and_The_Republican_Party.html
If humor be the safety of our race, then it is due largely to the infusion into the American people of the Irish brain.
Humor Irlandês; discurso em Hot Springs, Virginia (5 de agosto de 1908) http://www.authentichistory.com/1900s/1908election/19080805_William_H_Taft-Irish_Humor.html
I have come to the conclusion that the major part of the work of a President is to increase the gate receipts of expositions and fairs and bring tourists to town.
citação reproduzida em Carta de de Archibald Butt para Clara F. Butt (1 de junho de 1909), reimpresso em O íntimo das cartas de Archie Butt, Doubleday, Doran, & Co. (1930); Archibaldo Butt foi um influente militar na gestão dos presidentes Theodore Roosevelt e William Howard Taft.
Substantial progress toward better things can rarely be taken with out developing new evils requiring new remedies.
Our Chief Magistrate and His Powers (Nosso Chefe Magistrado e seus Poderes), p. 61, Columbia University Press (1916)
William Howard Taft: Frases em inglês
Fonte: Our Chief Magistrate and His Powers (Columbia University Press, 1916), P. 61.
Quoted in David G. Plotkin (1955), Dictionary of American Maxims; the last phrase translates roughly as "Wonderfully, amazingly; remarkable to say; It's a miracle! "
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