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

William Howard Taft on government

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

Address at a banquet given by the Board of Trade and Chamber of Commerce of Washington, D.C., May 8, 1909.; found in Presidential Addresses and State Papers of William Howard Taft, vol. 1, chapter 7, p. 82 (1910).

Substantial progress toward better things can rarely be taken with out developing new evils requiring new remedies.
Our Chief Magistrate and His Powers (Columbia University Press, 1916), P. 61.
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