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
I do not believe in the divinity of Christ, and there are many other of the postulates of the orthodox creed to which I cannot subscribe.
We can't have a decent government unless those in power exercise self restraint.
Constitutions 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 for the rights of the minority.
Don't write so that you can be understood, write so that you can't be misunderstood.
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.
Substantial progress toward better things can rarely be taken without developing new evils requiring new remedies.
We are all imperfect. We can not expect perfect government.
The world is not going to be saved by legislation.
We passed the Children's Bureau bill calculated to prevent children from being employed too early in factories.
I think I might as well give up being a candidate. There are so many people in the country who don't like me.
We must dare to be great; and we must realize that greatness is the fruit of toil and sacrifice and high courage.
Presidents come and go, but the Supreme Court goes on forever.
No tendency is quite so strong in human nature as the desire to lay down rules of conduct for other people.
The City that knows how.