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
We live in a stage of politics, where legislators seem to regard the passage of laws as much more important than the… — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
Action for which I become responsible, or for which my administration becomes responsible, shall be within the law. — 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
Unless education promotes character making, unless it helps men to be more moral, more just to their fellows, more law abiding, more… — 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
One of the reforms to be carried out during the incoming administration is a change in our monetary and banking laws, so… — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
Rules of conduct which govern men in their relations to one another are being applied in an ever-increasing degree to nations. The… — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
I love judges, and I love courts. They are my ideals, that typify on earth what we shall meet hereafter in heaven… — 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
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
