Bill Taft

I am very proud that I have had the honor to be elected a member of the board of trustees of this institution, and I am proud because I have been thought worthy.

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.

He never introduces me to a Virginia audience that I don't want to come again.

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

I am opposed to that.

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 and unite in appropriate services of…

We have lived in quietness, undisturbed by war or threats of war.

I am here to-day therefore to congratulate Father McDonnell and his congregation and the distinguished dignitaries of the Catholic Church on the growth in this community of this Church of St. Aloysius, and on the good that it has done.

This is as far as possible from the truth.

In our country, in this Government and under our Constitution there is no union of Church and State, but rather a declared separation of them.

I am glad to be present on this occasion, the golden jubilee of the foundation of this church.

It is hereby ordered that lot 3, containing 44.30 of sec. 10, T. 15 N., R. 4 W. of the Willamette meridian in the State of Washington, reserved for the use and occupation of the Chehalis Indians, by order of the President, dated October 1…

I like to think, whether it be true or not, that we have in this generation reached a somewhat different view of the responsibilities of a civilized nation from that which prevailed in the last generation, especially as applied to our…

They are the outposts of the Christian civilization.

No one can say – I mean conscientiously say, that is 'right down between us' – that we have been there for the exploitation of our own business.

We entered lightly – well, not lightly; with a sense of due gravity, but certainly not with a sense of what the possibilities were – at Key West and at Santiago, and we brought up ten thousand miles away at Manila.

That did cause some sort of responsibility and did make us assume some sort of protection over and interest in the independent nations and governments of this hemisphere.

It is hereby directed that the Secretary of the Interior allot to Perry Yukton, an enrolled member of the Chehalis Tribe, the land above described, in accordance with the provisions of section 4, of the act of Congress approved February 8…

I do not think that the money we have spent even estimating it at the highest sum, has been wasted in any way.

I am going to stop and relieve you.

I feel a certain sort of pride in the fact that I was the only Republican candidate for President who ever ventured in a canvass for the Presidency to address a Virginia audience.

I am glad to be here in Virginia.

I do not know whether you feel glad about it, but I do.

I am strongly in favor of a postal savings bank.