William Taft actually said...

It is easy in cases like this to take the course which timidity prompts, and to do nothing, but such a course does not inure to the public weal.

Message to the Senate Explaining the Administration's Reasons for Eliminating from the Chugach National Forest of...

07/25/1911

More William Taft Quotes

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

It is hereby ordered that the following described lands in Pima County, Ariz., be, and they are hereby, reserved from settlement, entry, sal...

It is hereby ordered that the following-described land, to wit, the northwest quarter of the northeast quarter and the west half of the nort...

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