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
There is only one thing I want to say about Ohio that has a political tinge, and that is that I think… — 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
There is no legislation--I care not what it is--tariff, railroads, corporations, or of a general political character, that all equals in importance… — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
A system in which we may have an enforced rest from legislation for two years is not bad. — 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
