Legislation sayings

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◆ When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in Society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system, that authorizes it, and a Moral code that Glorifies it!

- Frederic Bastiat99

◆ If you want good laws, burn those you have and make new ones.

- Voltaire99

◆ Leaving prices out of the picture is probably the source of more fallacies in economics than any other single misconception.

- Thomas Sowell99

◆ One of the greatest delusions in the world is the hope that the evils in this world are to be cured by legislation.

- Thomas Brackett Reed99

◆ Legislation has been and is still directed towards the protection of wealth, rather than towards the far more important interests of labor on which everything of value to mankind depends.

- Leland Stanford99

◆ If anyone tells you that you cannot legislate morality, remeber that legislation IS morality.

- Jay Alan Sekulow99

◆ They rushed to move it forward, uh, and then a lawsuit was filed and we spent many months litigating, rather than trying to come up with legislation and move forward on that front.

- Tom Udall99

◆ The world is not going to be saved by legislation.

- William Howard Taft99

◆ A system in which we may have an enforced rest from legislation for two years is not bad.

- William Howard Taft99

◆ A good compromise, a good piece of legislation, is like a good sentence; or a good piece of music. Everybody can recognize it. They say, 'Huh. It works. It makes sense.'

- Barack Obama99

◆ When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.

- P J O'Rourke99

◆ Rather than waiting to restore fiscal responsibility after we pass legislation, we must work to ensure we remain committed to it as we draft legislation.

- Gary Miller99

◆ Revealed religion is one thing, revealed legislation, another.

- Moses Mendelssohn99