William Taft actually said...

We are digging out of it three millions of cubic yards a month.

Address at a Banquet Tendered by Citizens of San Francisco at the Hotel Fairmont

10/04/1909

More William Taft Quotes

The Panama Canal is of course the greatest enterprise of a constructive character which has been entered upon for centuries.

You are a marvel.

There is nothing that an American can not achieve and can not overcome.

It will certainly be completed by the 1st of January 1915.