William Taft actually said...

"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."

"I shall be glad that I shall not have any property to leave to my boys, of whom I have two, but only a good character and a pride in themselves and a good education; but for my daughter I am going to ..."

"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."