The study of Freemasonry is the study of man as a candidate for a blessed eternity. It furnishes examples of holy living,… — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
The real secrets of Masonry are never told, not even from mouth to ear. For the real secret of Masonry is spoken… — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
The secret of Masonry, like the secret of life, can be known only by those who seek it, serve it, live it.… — 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
When the history of this period is written, [William Jennings] Bryan will stand out as one of the most remarkable men of… — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
The Masonic system represents a stupendous and beautiful fabric, founded on universal purity, to rule and direct our passions, to have faith… — 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
Masonry aims at the promotion of morality and higher living by the cultivation of the social side of man, the rousing in… — 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
In the public interest, therefore, it is better that we lose the services of the exceptions who are good Judges after they… — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
The Masonic Fraternity is one of the most helpful mediating and conserving organizations among men, and I have never wavered from that… — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
The man with the average mentality, but with control, with a definite goal, and a clear conception of how it can be… — 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
The underlying principle of Masonry is the fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man. In this war we are engaging in… — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
The development of the doctrine of international arbitration, considered from the standpoint of its ultimate benefits to the human race, is the… — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
There is nothing so despicable as a secret society that is based upon religious prejudice and that will attempt to defeat a… — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
A man never knows exactly how the child of his brain will strike other people. — 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
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
The secrecy of Masonry is an honorable secrecy; any good man may ask for her secrets; those who are worthy will receive… — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
Golf in the interest of good health and good manners. It promotes self-restraint and affords a chance to play the man and… — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
I think his greatest fault is his failure to accord credit to anyone for what he may have done. This is a… — 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