William Taft actually said...

No honest, clear-headed man, however great a lover of popular government, can deny that the unbridled expression of the majority of a community converted hastily into law or action would sometimes make a government tyrannical and cruel.

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Message to the House of Representatives Returning Without Approval a Joint Resolution for the Admission of the Territories...

08/14/1911

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