William Howard TaftMy impression about the Panama Canal is that the great revolution it is going to introduce in the trade of the world is in the trade between the east and the west coast of the Uni… ▶373Politics
William Howard TaftA government is for the benefit of all the people. ✨ William Howard Taft (2004). Liberty Under Law and Selected Supreme Court Opinions, p.12, Ohio University Press363HumanityPolitics
William Howard TaftThe Society or Fraternity of Freemasons is more in the nature of a system of Philosophy or of moral and social virtues taught by symbols, allegories, and lectures based upon funda… ▶342HumanityPhilosophyTruth
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. ✨ Personal Quotes/ Biography. www.imdb.com.365HumanityThought
William Howard TaftAnyone who has taken the oath I have just taken must feel a heavy weight of responsibility. If not, he has no conception of the powers and duties of the office. ✨ William Ho… ▶355Politics
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. … ▶345LifeReadingTime
William Howard TaftAnti-Semitism is a noxious weed that should be cut out. It has no place in America. ✨ Anti-Semitism in the United States. Address to the Anti Defamation League in Chicago, I… ▶356Politics
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. ✨ … ▶356HumanityPolitics
William Howard TaftI am glad to be going. This is the lonesomest pace in the world?346Sadness
William Howard TaftThe President can exercise no power which cannot be fairly and reasonably traced to some specific grant of power in the Federal Constitution or in an act of Congress passed in pur… ▶302Politics
William Howard TaftLawyers are necessary in a community. Some of you...take a different view; but as I am a member of that legal profession, or was at one time, and have only lost standing in it to … ▶3710PoliticsTime
William Howard TaftConstitutions are checks upon the hasty action of the majority. They are the self-imposed restraints of a whole people upon a majority of them to secure sober action and a respect… ▶292Humanity
William Howard TaftThe Masonic system represents a stupendous and beautiful fabric, founded on universal purity, to rule and direct our passions, to have faith and love in God, and charity toward ma… ▶325HopeLoveTime
William Howard TaftEnthusiasm for a cause sometimes warps judgment. ✨ William Howard Taft (1912*). Peace, patriotic and religious addresses by President Taft: delivered during his administrati… ▶336Time
William Howard TaftThe true Mason never hesitates to use the working tools to correct personal flaws.271PoliticsTruth
William Howard TaftI'll be damned if I am not getting tired of this. It seems to be the profession of a President simply to hear other people talk. ✨ Taft and Roosevelt: The intimate letters o… ▶316HumanityReading
William Howard TaftThe true Mason is the Tiler of the Temple of the Heart.294LoveTruth
William Howard TaftPresidents come and go, but the Supreme Court goes on forever. ✨ The Life and Times of William Howard Taft. Book by Henry F. Pringle, 1939.3510LifeReadingTime
William Howard TaftWe are imperfect. We cannot expect perfect government. ✨ Address at a banquet given by the Board of Trade and Chamber of Commerce of Washington, D.C., on May 08, 1909. Presi… ▶251Politics
William Howard TaftThe intoxication of power rapidly sobers off in the knowledge of its restrictions and under the prompt reminder of an ever-present and not always considerate press, as well as the… ▶284PoliticsReflectionThought
William Howard TaftSubstantial progress toward better things can rarely be taken without developing new evils requiring new remedies. ✨ William Howard Taft, David Henry Burton (2009). William … ▶262Death
William Howard TaftAs the Republican platforms says, the welfare of the farmer is vital to that of the whole country. ✨ William Howard Taft (1910). Presidential Addresses and State Papers, fro… ▶306Politics
William Howard TaftNext to the right of liberty, the right of property is the most important individual right guaranteed by the Constitution . . ✨ William Howard Taft, William Taft Popular Gov… ▶318Politics
William Howard TaftThe true Mason ever strives to cultivate Masonry in his/her life to the fullest degree possible.3310LifeTruth
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 … ▶285Truth
William Howard TaftAs a people, we have the problem of making our forests outlast this generation, or iron outlast this century, and our coal the next; not merely as a matter of convenience or comfo… ▶297Humanity
William Howard TaftPolitics make me sick242Politics
William Howard TaftI would like to have an ample fund to spread the light of Republicanism, but I am willing to undergo the disadvantage to make certain that in the future we shall reduce the power … ▶298HopePoliticsReading
William Howard TaftMasonry, according to the general acceptation of the term, is an art founded on the principles of geometry, and devoted to the service and convenience of mankind. But Freemasonry,… ▶265HumanityThought
William Howard TaftPolitics, when I am in it, makes me sick. ✨ Taft and Roosevelt: The intimate letters of Archie Butt. Book by Archibald Willingham Butt, 1930.276PoliticsReading
