Bill Taft: “We are in the habit, we Anglo-Saxons, of looking back to our ancestors with a smug satisfaction and thinking that no one…”

I think it to be greatly in the interest of fair dealing, which ought always to be encouraged by law.

Now, Therefore, I, William Howard Taft, President of the United States of America, do, in accordance with the provisions of the Act of Congress and the joint resolution of Congress herein named, declare and proclaim the fact that the…

I earnestly recommend the establishment of a Bureau of National Parks.

There is no doubt but that a commission could be appointed of such unprejudiced and impartial persons, experts in investigation of economic facts, that a great deal of very valuable light could be shed upon the reasons for the high prices…