Political Quotes

Robert Taft

The Public Record

Jun 19, 1911

I recommend that this be done at once as a matter of emergency.

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Jun 19, 1911

The statute can be easily amended to include the evil I have described.

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Jun 19, 1911

Fraudulent misrepresentations of the curative value of nostrums not only operate to defraud purchasers, but are a distinct menace to the public health.

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Jun 19, 1911

An evil which menaces the general health of the people strikes at the life of the Nation.

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Jun 15, 1911

It is hereby ordered that the following described lands in Pima County, Ariz., be, and they are hereby, reserved from settlement, entry, sale, or other disposal and set aside for school, agency, and other necessary uses for the benefit of the Papago Indians, subject to any valid existing rights of any persons thereto

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Jun 1, 1911

It is hereby ordered that the following-described land, to wit, the northwest quarter of the northeast quarter and the west half of the northeast quarter of the northeast quarter of section 26, township 18 north of range 13 west of the Gila and Salt River meridian, be, and the same is hereby, reserved from entry, sale, settlement, or other disposition, for use of the Walapai Indians, subject to any valid, existing right of any person to the land described herein.

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May 29, 1911

Love of country, love of family, love of God—it is difficult to classify these affections of the human heart and soul, for they so melt into each other that the one who has most of one has most of all.

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May 29, 1911

Let us leave this beautiful city of the national dead, therefore, with the deepest gratitude to the men whose valorous deeds we celebrate.

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May 29, 1911

I shall not stop to discuss whether it might have been possible to accomplish the same great reform by milder methods.

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May 29, 1911

We have made great progress, almost within our own memory, in such ideals.

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