Legislation Quotes
For many of those who had historically supported welfare programs in the broadest sense, it was perfectly reasonable to enact legislation in which poor people were the objects of efforts to assist them.
Barney Frank
If Congress can employ money indefinitely to the general welfare, and are the sole and supreme judges of the general welfare, they may take the care of religion into their own hands; they may appoint teachers in every State, county and parish and pay them out of their public treasury; they may take into their own hands the education of children, establishing in like manner schools throughout the Union; they may assume the provision of the poor; they may undertake the regulation of all roads other than post-roads; in short, every thing, from the highest object of state legislation down to the most minute object of police, would be thrown under the power of Congress... Were the power of Congress to be established in the latitude contended for, it would subvert the very foundations, and transmute the very nature of the limited Government established by the people of America
James Madison
One of the greatest delusions in the world is the hope that the evils in this world are to be cured by legislation
Thomas Reed
The king, if the illness did not intervene, would have made an official visit to the Western Cape as part of our efforts to make right the wrongs of the past, particularly apartheid legislation and the alienation of the Xhosa speaking communities.
Ebrahim Rasool
t’s hard to believe that in the greatest democracy in the world, we need legislation to prevent the government from writing and paying for the news.
Senator John Kerry
Whereas wine disorders the mental faculties, opium introduces amongst them the most exquisite order, legislation and harmony. Wine robs a man of self-possession; opium greatly invigorates it.
Thomas De Quincey
I don't believe an Alliance government should sponsor legislation on abortion or a referendum on abortion.
Stephen Harper
A system in which we may have an enforced rest from legislation for two years is not bad.
William Howard Taft
A majority of Americans oppose partial-birth abortion, and Judge Hamilton's decision flies in the face of Congress passing and President Bush signing legislation banning such horrible acts of violence.
Marc Racicot
You do not examine legislation in the light of the benefits it will convey if properly administered, but in the light of the wrongs it would do and the harms it would cause if improperly administered.
Lyndon B. Johnson
The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation
Jeremy Bentham
Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech because we forget that all speech is a classification, and that all classifications are oppressive.
Roland Barthes
Once you attempt legislation upon religious grounds, you open the way for every kind of intolerance and religious persecution
William Butler Yeats
Today's public opinion, though it may appear as light as air, may be tomorrow's legislation-for better or for worse.
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