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By William Howard Taft
Anyone who has taken the oath I have just taken must feel a heavy weight of responsibility.
- Source
- Inaugural Address, March 4, 1909
- Read at
- The American Presidency Project (text follows the Public Papers of the Presidents)
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The opening sentence of William Howard Taft's Inaugural Address, March 4, 1909. The next sentence is: "If not, he has no conception of the powers and duties of the office upon which he is about to enter, or he is lacking in a proper sense of the obligation which the oath imposes."