William Taft actually said...

"Now that is a proposition that I am prepared to defend against all comers."

"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."

"Warning is hereby expressly given to all unauthorized persons not to appropriate, excavate, injure or destroy any of the ruins or relics hereby declared to be a National Monument or to locate or settl..."

"We have passed through all the dangers of the navigation of the river."