(565 quotes found)
“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
“You kind of took it for granted around the Yankees that there was always going to be baseball in October.”
Whitey Ford
“What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their experiments is infinitely more interesting than any results to which their experiments lead”
Norbert Wiener
“The fates are not quite obdurate; they have a grim, sardonic way of granting them who supplicate the thing they wanted yesterday.”
Roselle Mercier Montgomery
“Never take anything for granted.”
Benjamin Disraeli
“America can no longer take active and engaged literacy for granted.”
Dana Gioia
“We believe that in your province you have granted a second term to our president, George W. Bush, and our vice president, Richard Cheney,”
Billy Graham
“Allah has granted a grade higher to those who strive and fight with their goods and persons than to those who sit at home”
quran
“We're certainly not taking the Hispanic vote for granted.”
Howard Dean
“Families, particularly, tend to be the ones that you take the most for granted. They seem to slip under the radar, all those important things - it almost becomes second nature to do so.”
Adam Garcia
