William Taft actually said...

The issue is not now whether we ought originally to have begun this investigation, but it is whether, having expended a very large part of the necessary amount to do the full work, we ought to break it off for lack of a comparatively small additional appropriation.

08/20/1911

https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu...

More William Taft Quotes

"I am glad to come here and to testify by my presence as to my sympathy with the great work of Dr. Klopsch in this mission."
"I am glad to be here, if, by being here and saying so, I can convince you that the so-called chasm between you and people who seem for the time to be more fortunate is not a chasm."
"Warning is hereby expressly given to all unauthorized persons not to excavate, appropriate, injure or destroy any of the objects hereby reserved, nor to settle upon any of the lands contained within t..."
"The presence of gubernatorial timber on that trip sweetens every recollection of the trip."

View All William Taft Quotes