William Taft actually said...

"We speak with great satisfaction of the fact that our ancestors—and I claim New England ancestry—came to this country in order to establish freedom of religion."

"We have passed beyond that and out of the friction."

"They knew the responsibilities that they owed to the world and that they owed to the people for whom they were making the declaration."

"They recalled that the Pretorian Guard of Rome was an instrument in furthering the ambition of those who would suppress free institutions and who were to assume despotic power."