William howard taft famous quotes

William Howard Taft (15 September1857 – 8 March1930) was the 27th president of the United States (1909–1913) and 10th chief justice of the United States (1921–1930).

He also served as an associate judge on the Sixth Circuit, Governor-General of the Philippines, Secretary of War to Theodore Roosevelt and Solicitor General. Between 1914 and 1920 he was the Kent Professor of Law at Yale University.

Quotes

• I am a Unitarian.

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  I believe in God. I do not believe in the divinity of Christ, and there are many postulates of the orthodox creed to which I cannot subscribe.

  • Letter to Yale University (1899), quoted in Henry F. Pringle, William Howard Taft: The Life and Times, vol.

    1, p. 45 (1939).

• The welfare of the farmer is vital to that of the whole country.
  • The Farmer and the Republican Party, address in Hot Springs, Virginia (5 August 1908) [1].

• If humor be the safety of our race, then it is due largely to the infusion into the Ame