William Taft actually said...

"One of the things that I think we ought to do is not to decry the past."

"You are getting, as the boys and girls used to say in 'finding the button'—you are getting warm."

"I don't know that I have any right to be here to talk about waterways, unless it makes a man an expert on the subject to have gone down the Mississippi River."

"I am still a consistent advocate of that theory."