"I am a Unitarian. I believe in God. I do not believe in the divinity of Christ, and there are many postulates of the orthodox creed to which I cannot subscribe."[1]
Simple: I am a Unitarianist and I believe in God. But I do not believe that Jesus Christ was God, and there are many ideas in the traditionalcreeds that I do not understand.
About the quote: Quoted in a letter to Yale University (1899).
"We are all imperfect. We can not expect perfect government."[2]
Simple: No person is perfect. So people cannot expect their government to be perfect.
About the quote: Address at a banquet given by the Board of Trade and Chamber of Commerce of Washington, D.C., May 8, 1909.
References
↑Henry F. Pringle, William Howard Taft: The Life and Times, volume 1, page 45 (1939)
↑Presidential Addresses and State Papers of William Howard Taft, volume 1, chapter 7, page 82 (1910)