Bill Taft

The one thought that strikes a judicial mind going about this country is the homogeneity of the American people.

I expect to recommend to Congress that there be a union of all the instrumentalities of the Government for the organization of means of health and the study of disease.

I hesitate to occupy your time in discussing an old method of transporting goods when you have before your eyes the newest one invented.

Unless we can have uniform State operation, uniform State legislation with reference to the preservation of our forests, the equalization of water which falls from the clouds, and the preservation of our soil from being washed out to sea…

I feel always like claiming what Judge Black explained with his constitutional law, that when I was elected President of the United States I was elected from Georgia.

Nothing could modify my ambitions, nothing restrain the haste with which I would go back to the Capitol City except the pleasure of meeting my old friends in Augusta.

It is a great pleasure to be here.

And now, my friends, I am going to stop.

I am not inspired to say much to-day, because I feel so much more than I can say.

But the next time I come to South Carolina I expect to dine with the ladies and the gentlemen.

Now we are letting them in to see the animals eat.

I don't claim any credit for it, because a man who would not come to Columbia when he could, and enjoy such a festivity and welcome as this, does not understand a good thing when he sees it.

I count it a great privilege to come here, representing the Nation that you love so well.

That is one promise of the Administration that I have redeemed.

It is the first State in which I have been tendered a welcome within the capitol walls of the State, and I take it as an expression on your part of a desire to show that it is the State and the people of the State that welcome me.

I say good-bye now. I hope to come again as soon as I can

I am honored to-night by the presence of the Governor of your State and by that of your two Senators with all of whom, I am glad to say, I am on the most friendly personal terms.

I thank you for your kindly welcome.

There are certain advantages in being the only speaker and there are certain disadvantages.

I think generally that if they see the man and come into a sort of personal touch, they are more sympathetic with him in his difficulties.

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

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 scrape together as much as I can give…

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 am not in favor of suffrage for women until I can be convinced that all the women desire it; and when they desire it I am in favor of giving it to them, and when they desire it they will get it too.

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.