“Don't worry over what the newspapers say. I don't. Why should anyone else? I told the truth to the newspaper correspondents - but when you tell the truth to them they are at sea.”

—  William Howard Taft

Quoted in Henry Pringle (1939), The Life and Times of William Howard Taft.
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