Political Quotes

On the recordSeptember 4, 1910
I urge that no good can come from meetings of this sort unless we ascribe to those who take part in them, and who are apparently striving worthily in the cause, all proper motives.
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Bill Taft
Republican · Ohio

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Address to the National Conservation Congress in St. Paul, Minnesota

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