Lawyers are necessary in a community. Some of you...take a different view; but as I am a member of that legal profession,… — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
I don't know whither we are drifting, but I do know where every real thinking patriot will stand in the end, and… — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
We have a government of limited power under the Constitution, and we have got to work out our problems on the basis… — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
Constitutions are checks upon the hasty action of the majority. They are the self-imposed restraints of a whole people upon a majority… — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
The President can exercise no power which cannot be fairly and reasonably traced to some specific grant of power in the Federal… — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
It is not impossible, of course, after such an administration as Roosevelt's and after the change in method that I could not… — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
Next to the right of liberty, the right of property is the most important individual right guaranteed by the Constitution and the… — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
He [Roosevelt] has made some speeches that indicate that he is going quite beyond anything that he advocated when he was in… — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
Next to the right of liberty, the right of property is the most important individual right guaranteed by the Constitution . . — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
The study of Freemasonry is the study of man as a candidate for a blessed eternity. It furnishes examples of holy living, and displays… — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
What I am anxious to do is to get the best bill possible with the least amount of friction.... I wish to avoid [splitting… — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
“A National Government cannot create good times. It cannot make the rain to fall, the sun to shine, or the crops to grow, but… — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
What I am anxious to do is to secure my legislation.... What I want to do is to get through that, and if I… — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
Lawyers are necessary in a community. Some of you...take a different view; but as I am a member of that legal profession, or was… — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
I prefer an income tax, but the truth is I am afraid of the discussion which will follow and the criticism which will ensue… — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
I look forward with hope to increasing the already good feeling between the South andthe other sections of the country. My chief purpose is… — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
Substantial progress toward better things can rarely be taken without developing new evils requiring new remedies. — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
The precepts of the Gospel were universally the obligations of Masonry. — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
We live in a stage of politics, where legislators seem to regard the passage of laws as much more important than the results of… — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image