Quotes About Regulation

Government is an inherently inflationary institution and will ever remain so until it is dispossessed of its monopoly of the supply of money.

Speech doesn't corrupt. Money corrupts, and money isn't speech.

Sound money and free banking are not impossible; they are merely illegal.

Anything you can do to protect the public and allow it to have the confidence that our financial controls are good is very, very positive.

This is an industry that generates addicted gamblers and they are desperate to get money

I do think that people ought to have some control over their money, rather than the government, just mandating to them how they're going to invest their money.

I am committed to curbing the influence of money in our political system.

Many people who try to do big bold things in the world find out it's not about the money or the technology: It's about the regulatory hurdles that will try and stop you.

So, I'm getting less chips, paying the same amount of money. Is that legal for them to do this?

Mother's milk would be banned by the food safety laws of industrialized nations if it were sold as a packaged good.

The term "too big to fail" must be excised from our vocabulary.

Applause should be an emotional response to the music, rather than a regulated social duty.

I have always kept one end in view, namely ... to conduct a well-regulated church music to the honour of God.

Explicit material is available in a variety of forums - from popular music to television to the Internet.

I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent.

Musical innovation is full of danger to the State, for when modes of music change, the laws of the State always change with them.

Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint.

No tendency is quite so strong in human nature as the desire to lay down rules of conduct for other people.

Men at a distance, who have admired our systems of government unfounded in nature, are apt to accuse the rulers, and say that taxes have been assessed too high and collected too rigidly.

I can control my passions and emotions if I can understand their nature

It's a very strange thing when you make nature illegal.

The law cannot equalize mankind in spite of nature.

Isn't that weird, we've made nature against the law. That's how un-natural we've become.

Everything in nature acts in conformity with law.