William Taft actually said...

"I am the last man to pardon or mitigate wrongs against the public or against the individual."

"The Young Men's Christian Association offers a lesson which can not be too deeply impressed upon the people—the lesson of tolerance."

"I congratulate you sincerely on the evidence of the especial excellence of your Association here."

"The Young Men's Christian Association supplies a need in every community which no church, no institution, nothing else that I know of can meet."