William Howard Taft quotes

1857–1930 · Cincinnati, OH

• Anyone who has taken the oath I have just taken must feel a heavy weight of responsibility.

• The true view of the Executive functions is, as I conceive it, that the President can exercise no power which cannot be fairly and reasonably traced to some specific grant of power or justly implied and included within such express grant as proper and necessary to its exercise.

• Substantial progress toward better things can rarely be taken without developing new evils requiring new remedies.

• The world is not going to be saved by legislation, and it is not going to be injured by an occasional two years of respite from the panacea and magic that many modern schools of politicians seem to think are to be found in the words: "Be it enacted."