“We are all imperfect. We can not expect perfect government.” — William Howard Taft Quote

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

“A government is for the benefit of all the people.”

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

“My particular historical vantage point is a product of my upbringing as that odd duck, a native Washingtonian whose parents were not in government. The first presidential transition of my sentient lifetime, Kennedy's, I remember vividly.”

“I am absolutely opposed to a national ID card. This is a total contradiction of what a free society is all about. The purpose of government is to protect the secrecy and the privacy of all individuals, not the secrecy of government. We don't need a national ID card.”

“If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists - to protect them and to promote their common welfare - all else is lost.”