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
William Howard Taft quotes about
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.
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 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.
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 . .
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 at one time, and have only lost standing in it to become a politician, I still retain the pride of the profession. And I still insist that it is the law and the lawyer that make popular government under a written constitution and written statutes possible..
A government is for the benefit of all the people.
We are imperfect. We cannot expect perfect government.
As 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 comfort, but as a matter of stern necessity.
The precepts of the Gospel were universally the obligations of Masonry.