William Taft actually said...

"But jesting aside, my dear friends, there is no experience in my life more delightful than that which I have had in California."

"We are in the habit, we Anglo-Saxons, of looking back to our ancestors with a smug satisfaction and thinking that no one has exactly the right to that pride of ancestry that we have."

"I have attended many banquets."

"It is a great pleasure for me to revisit your beautiful city."