William Howard Taft Quotes About Exercise

Quotes about: Exercise

• We can't have a decent government unless those in power exercise self restraint.

  William Howard Taft

  Exercise, Government, Self

• The President can exercise no power which cannot be fairly and reasonably traced to some specific grant of power in the Federal Constitution or in an act of Congress passed in pursuance thereof. There is no undefined residuum of power which he can exercise because it seems to him to be in the public interest.

  William Howard Taft

  Exercise, Power, President

  William Howard Taft, David Henry Burton (2009). “William Howard Taft: Essential Writings and Addresses”, p.200, Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

• I wish to reiterate all the reasons which [my predecessor] has presented in favor of the policy of maintaining a strong navy as the best conservator of our peace with other nations and the best means of securing respect for the assertion of our rights of the defense of our interests, and the exercise of our influence in international matters.

  William Howard Taft

  Peace, Strong, Mean

  William Howard Taft (1910). “Presidential Addresses and State Papers, from March 4, 1909 to March 4, 1910”

• That all may be so, but when I begin to exercise that power I am not conscious of the power, but only of the limitations imposed on me.

  William Howard Taft

  Exercise, Power, May

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