Quotes About Regulation

The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions.

Power ought to serve as a check to power.

Skewered through and through with office pens, and bound hand and foot with red tape.

The one great principle of English law is to make business for itself.

Accidents will occur in the best-regulated families; and in families not regulated by that pervading influence which sanctifies while it enhances... in short, by the influence of Woman, in the lofty character of Wife, they may be expected with confidence, and must be borne with philosophy.

For gracious sake, don't talk about Liberty; we have quite enough of that.

It takes 35 million laws to enforce the Ten Commandments.

Why don't they pass a Constitutional Amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as Prohibition did, in five years we will have the smartest people on earth.

If Ayn Rand were an up-and-coming author today, she wouldn't write about steel or railroads, it would be net neutrality.

Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring.

This used to be a government of checks and balances. Now it's all checks and no balances.

They had one all-important goal: to ensure that church and state maintained sole monopoly over doctrine.

Emma smiled thinly. "The pills say wake up, and we wake up. We won't ever fall asleep at the wrong time again. But it's like being an animal in a factory farm, pushed along between the rails, going wherever you want us to go.

The development of the food industry for both domestic and export markets relies on a regulatory framework that both protects the consumer and assures fair trading practices in food.

Our goal is to shrink government to the size where we can drown it in a bathtub.

There is plenty of law at the end of a nightstick.

I don't know why tobacco producers are exempt when it comes to listing ingredients, but that's just the way it is (it's all covered within the one word – tar).

This incessant creation of restrictive laws and regulations,surrounding the pettiest actions of existence with the most complicated formalities, inevitably has for its result the confining within narrower and narrower limits of the sphere in which the citizen may move freely.

signed into law in 1955 as the Limited-Profit Housing Companies Act.

He who builds a better mousetrap these days runs into material shortages, patent-infringement suits, work stoppages, collusive bidding, discount discrimination--and taxes."

Measurement is the first step that leads to control and eventually to improvement. If you can't measure something, you can't understand it. If you can't understand it, you can't control it. If you can't control it, you can't improve it.

pulses of electricity, magnetism, sound, heat, vibration, and light that are transmitted to every part of the body via the circulatory system and extracellular fluids and thereby reach every cell in the body (see Figure 15.6). These signals may serve a variety of vital regulatory roles.

Some employers banned drinking on the job and tried even to forbid their workers to drink off the job. For men who considered their thrice-daily tipple a right, this was another mark of slavery.

A well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.