William Taft actually said...

If I sign this joint resolution, I do not see how I can escape responsibility for the judicial recall of the Arizona constitution.

Constitutions are checks upon the hasty action of the majority.

We believe that this benefit is best accomplished by popular government, because in the long run each class of individuals is apt to secure ...

No honest, clear-headed man, however great a lover of popular government, can deny that the unbridled expression of the majority of a commun...