William Taft actually said...

"In the first place, I want to commend myself, and that is by having appointed Judge Sloan your Governor."

"But jesting aside, my dear friends, there is no experience in my life more delightful than that which I have had in California."

"The truth is that the honor of unveiling the tablet to the Rev. Father Serra was one that I had not anticipated, but which I was glad to perform."

"We are in the habit, we Anglo-Saxons, of looking back to our ancestors with a smug satisfaction and thinking that no one has exactly the right to that pride of ancestry that we have."