| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 57045 |
| QUOTATION: | He [Roosevelt] has made some speeches that indicate that he is going quite beyond anything that he advocated when he was in the White House, and has proposed a program which is absolutely impossible to carry out except by a revision of the Constitution. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | William Howard Taft (1857–1930), U.S. president. Letter to his brother, Charles, September 10, 1910. Henry F. Pringle, The Life and Times of William Howard Taft, 2: 573, Farrar & Rinehart (1939).
Taft wrote ten days after Roosevelt announced his New Nationalism in a speech at Osawatomie, Kansas, August 31, 1910. |
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