What I am anxious to do is to secure my legislation.... What I want to do is to get through that, and… — 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… — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
Take away from the courts, if it could be taken away, the power to issue injunctions in labor disputes, and it would… — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
One cannot always be sure of the truth of what one hears if he happens to be President of the United States. — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
The judiciary has fallen to a very low state in this country. I think your part of the country has suffered especially.… — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
I don't know the man I admire more than [Charles Evans] Hughes. If ever I have the chance I shall offer him… — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
Anyone who has taken the oath I have just taken must feel a heavy weight of responsibility. If not, he has no… — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
There is not a subject in which I take a deeper interest than I do in the development of Alaska, and I… — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
It is fitting that the Government of the United States should assume the obligation of the establishment and maintenance of a first-class… — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
The laboring man and the trade-unionist, if I understand him, asks only equality before the law. Class legislation and unequal privilege, though… — 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
I do not think that there is any doubt about where I stand in respect to boycotts. If there is, I will… — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
I do not allow myself to be moved by anything except the law. If there has been a mistake in the law,… — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
We should have an army so organized and so officered as to be capable in time of emergency, in cooperation with the… — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
People run away from the name subsidy. It is a subsidy. I am not afraid to call it so. It is paid… — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
If they will play fair I will play fair, but if they won't then I reserve all my rights to do anything… — 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
