Bill Taft

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Now, Therefore, I, William Howard Taft, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by section two of the Act of Congress, approved June eighth, nineteen hundred and six, entitled, 'An Act for the…

The combination of work and pleasure, the cultivation of health on the one hand and of intellect on the other, and of religious faith above all under such beautiful surroundings is calculated to make every one enthusiastic, and I share…

I think we are reaching a point in this country where we are very much more tolerant of everything and everybody than in the past.

I would be without that which makes a man if I did not appreciate to the full the kindly words of your distinguished Governor, and if I did not congratulate the State of New York on having a Governor who represents the highest ideals.

There is something in the atmosphere that suggests a flying machine, as if you were all so full of joy that that element in you could raise you up, and that is the way you ought to be.

I thank you, my dear friends, I thank the reverend fathers and His Eminence the Cardinal, for the cordial reception that you have given to the civil head of New York and to the civil head of the Nation.

I am not a Catholic, but I have had in the last ten years a great deal to do with the Catholic Church.

One is almost carried off his feet before such an audience.

The truth is that the gift of eloquence and speech which Governor Hughes has needs no practice, but I have to have a little.

We have passed beyond that and out of the friction.

They knew the responsibilities that they owed to the world and that they owed to the people for whom they were making the declaration.

Well may it be called the Rose of New England.

Men are not fit to govern themselves until they have sense and self-restraint enough to know what is their interest and to give every other man all that is coming to him according to right and justice.

We speak with great satisfaction of the fact that our ancestors—and I claim New England ancestry—came to this country in order to establish freedom of religion.

The truth is, in those days such a thing as freedom of religion was not understood.

Stephenson organized this Grand Army of the Republic to preserve the essence of that army in its finest characteristic, in its democracy and in its patriotism.

More than that, the Grand Army of the Republic is most useful in this: it represents the concentrated opinion of the men who fought in the war to preserve the Union, and it therefore may give authoritative expression, which no other body…

They recalled that the Pretorian Guard of Rome was an instrument in furthering the ambition of those who would suppress free institutions and who were to assume despotic power.

I can conceive no bond of union stronger than that which unites the men who fought from '61 to '65 in the Grand Army.

In the absence of the Secretary, the First Assistant Secretary, and the Assistant Secretary of the Interior Department, the Assistant Attorney-General for the Interior Department is hereby designated as Acting Secretary.