Smuggling is a fine art, 1902

“Smuggling is a fine art”
-President William Taft

 

President Taft on a Buffalo (c. 1904), from when he was serving as governor of the Philippines.

 

“We can sell all the hemp we can raise.”

-President William Taft

 

Herald Democrat, newspaper, February 7, 1902

 

 

“No tendency is quite so strong in human nature as the desire to lay down rules of conduct for other people.”
-President William Taft