Taft Writes

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“Lawyers are necessary in a community. Some of you ... take a different view; but as I am a member of that legal profession, or was at one time, and have only lost standing in it to become a politician, I still retain the pride of the profession. And I still insist that it is the law and the lawyer that make popular government under a written constitution and written statutes possible.”
—William Howard Taft (1857–1930)

“O, that’s a brave man! he writes brave verses, speaks
brave words, swears brave oaths, and breaks them bravely.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)