Substantial progress toward better things can rarely be taken without developing new evils requiring new remedies.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFTSubstantial progress toward better things can rarely be taken without developing new evils requiring new remedies.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFTWhen the history of this period is written, [William Jennings] Bryan will stand out as one of the most remarkable men of his generation and one of the biggest political men of our country.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFTThe true Mason does not hold or teach the attitude that, I am a Master Mason now and thus I no longer need to be concerned with using the working tools because they were given in the earlier degrees.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFTI don’t know the man I admire more than [Charles Evans] Hughes. If ever I have the chance I shall offer him the Chief Justiceship.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFTDon’t worry over what the newspapers say. I don’t. Why should anyone else? I told the truth to the newspaper correspondents – but when you tell the truth to them they are at sea.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFTA system in which we may have an enforced rest from legislation for two years is not bad.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFTI think I might as well give up being a candidate. There are so many people in the country who don’t like me.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFTSocialism proposes no adequate substitute for the motive of enlightened selfishness that today is at the basis of all human labor and effort, enterprise and new activity.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFTA man never knows exactly how the child of his brain will strike other people.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFTEnthusiasm for a cause sometimes warps judgment.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFTAnti-Semitism is a noxious weed that should be cut out. It has no place in America.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFTThe truth is that in my present life I don’t remember that I ever was president.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFTIf this humor be the safety of our race, then it is due largely to the infusion into the American people of the Irish brain.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFTThe precepts of the Gospel were universally the obligations of Masonry.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFTOne cannot always be sure of the truth of what one hears if he happens to be President of the United States.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFTI am president now, and tired of being kicked around.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT