Political Quotes

On the recordJuly 4, 1909
The truth is, in those days such a thing as freedom of religion was not understood.
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Bill Taft
Republican · Ohio

Editor's note · Context

Address at the Two Hundred and Fiftieth Anniversary of the Founding of Norwich, Connecticut

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Oct 22, 1911

Executive Order of June 14, 1879, temporarily withdrawing from sale and settlement for Indian uses all of townships 1 and 2 north, ranges 5 and 6 east, in Arizona, lying south of the Salt River, is hereby amended so as to withdraw…

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Aug 21, 1911

Pledged to support a policy of moderate protection, I can not approve a measure which violates its principle.

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Feb 14, 1912

it is believed that the following described land, to wit: Lot three of section two, in township twenty-two north, of range twenty-four west, of the Montana Meridian, in the State of Montana, is a natural and prospective center of population

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The purpose of this exclusion is to restore the Hoopa Valley Indian Reservation in all respects to the status existing prior to the said proclamation of March 2, 1909, as though the inclusion of the lands within the Trinity National Forest…

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