William Taft actually said...

"If I get him out in Ohio I will give him also a test of Ohio hospitality, but not with the same eloquence or the same elegance of language."

"That is what I want. That is what I recommended when I was Secretary of War, and that is what I am going to push for the next three years with the hope that I will get it at the end of that time."

"I want the Navy to continue to be maintained in a condition worthy of this country."

"I hereby appoint Thursday, the twenty-fifth day of November, as a day of general thanksgiving, and I call upon the people on that day, laying aside their usual vocations, to repair to their churches a..."