William Taft actually said...

"We have not opened all the avenues to livelihood which they are quite as well able to fill, and in certain respects better able to fill, than we are."

"I am the last one to take a position against that old doctrine of the common law that there ought to be nothing to interfere with matrimony."

"I wish that every woman in the world was so situated that she did not think it was necessary for her to marry if she did not want to."

"And now, my dear young ladies, I am delighted to have met you."