William Howard Taft
William Howard Taft
William Howard Taftserved as the 27th President of the United Statesand as the 10th Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court, the only person to have held both offices. Taft was elected president in 1908, the chosen successor of Theodore Roosevelt, but was defeated for re-election by Woodrow Wilson in 1912 after Roosevelt split the Republican vote by running as a third-party candidate. In 1921, President Warren G. Harding appointed Taft chief justice, a position in which he served...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPresident
Date of Birth15 September 1857
CountryUnited States of America
Enthusiasm for a cause sometimes warps judgment.
The cheerful loser is a sort of winner.
We must dare to be great; and we must realize that greatness is the fruit of toil and sacrifice and high courage.
Substantial progress toward better things can rarely be taken without developing new evils requiring new remedies.
Unless education promotes character making, unless it helps men to be more moral, more just to their fellows, more law abiding, more discriminatingly patriotic and public spirited, it is not worth the trouble taken to furnish it.
We are all imperfect. We can not expect perfect government.
Don't write so that you can be understood, write so that you can't be misunderstood.
I think it is a wise course for laborers to unite to defend their interests.... I think the employer who declines to deal with organized labor and to recognize it as a proper element in the settlement of wage controversies is behind the times.... Of course, when organized labor permits itself to sympathize with violent methods or undue duress, it is not entitled to our sympathy.
I do not know much about politics, but I am trying to do the best I can with this administration until the time shall come for me to turn it over to somebody else.
Politics make me sick
We live in a stage of politics, where legislators seem to regard the passage of laws as much more important than the results of their enforcement.
Masonry aims at the promotion of morality and higher living by the cultivation of the social side of man, the rousing in him of the instincts of charity and love of his kind. It rests surely on the foundation of the brotherhood of man and the fatherhood of God.
Anti-Semitism is a noxious weed that should be cut out. It has no place in America.
Next to the right of liberty, the right of property is the most important individual right guaranteed by the Constitution . .