William Taft actually said...

"In our country, in this Government and under our Constitution there is no union of Church and State, but rather a declared separation of them."

"They are the outposts of the Christian civilization."

"That did cause some sort of responsibility and did make us assume some sort of protection over and interest in the independent nations and governments of this hemisphere."

"We entered lightly – well, not lightly; with a sense of due gravity, but certainly not with a sense of what the possibilities were – at Key West and at Santiago, and we brought up ten thousand miles a..."