William Taft actually said...

You have done it wisely, first, because when you want a thing done it is just as well to get close to the men who are to do it.

Address at the Sixth Annual Convention of the National Rivers and Harbors Congress

12/07/1909

More William Taft Quotes

Executive order of June 14, 1879, temporarily withdrawing from sale and settlement for Indian uses so much of townships 1 and 2 north, range...

It is hereby ordered that the following described lands in New Mexico, namely, T. 16 N., R. 1 E., New Mexico principal meridian, excepting a...

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

The empirical and haphazard character of this bill is shown more clearly perhaps in the amendment to Schedule A than in any other.