Quotes About Regulation

He couldn't leave the area and couldn't knowingly go within a hundred feet of someone with a criminal record. He couldn't do drugs and he couldn't own or carry a weapon. The hydraulic rams came to life and

The packs of cigarettes available here carried the typical skulls and crossbones on them, but apparently no one in North Korea cared.

Not a proponent of the thirty-minute-wait rule?" said Blum.

Basically, in Alabama if you have a pulse you can have a gun, as many of them as you want.

The media can be controlled.

United States Code, title 10, § 311(a).

Every state and national capitol should have a sign on the door: Stop me before I legislate again.

every government intervention in the marketplace tends to reduce wealth and the overall standard of living.

Bobos are uncomfortable with universal moral laws that purport to regulate pleasure. Bobos prefer more prosaic self-controlled regimes. The things that are forbidden are unhealthy or unsafe. The things that are encouraged are enriching or calorie burning. In other words, we regulate our carnal desires with health codes instead of moral codes.

Producing laws is not an easier job than producing cars and food, so if the government is incompetent to produce cars or food, why do you expect it to do a good job producing the legal system within which you are then going to produce the cars and the food?

The marketplace is not a battlefield where the person with the most money wins the battle and takes the whole prize;

Monopoly power exists only when a firm can control the prices charged by existing competitors and prevent the entry of new ones. The most effective way of doing so is by the use of government power. There are considerable elements of monopoly in our economy, but virtually all are produced by government and could not exist under institutions of complete private property.

Government got too big—too powerful. Agencies like the IRS had entirely too much power.

Politicians are . . . politicians. It is the nature of government to become more intrusive, more controlling of people's lives and their property. Yours, ours now, perhaps less than many others. But who knows what the future may hold?

I declare to you, from the bottom of my heart, that no Socialist system can be established without a political police…No Socialist Government conducting the entire life and industry of the country could afford to allow free, sharp, or violently-worded expressions of public discontent. They would have to fall back on some form of Gestapo, no doubt very humanely directed in the first instance.

The use of force for the waging of war is not to be regulated simply by firm character and text-book maxims.

All men, forty-ish, dressed in dark suits, clean shaven—stubble against regulation, a firing offense.

Laws are silent in times of war.

The strictest law often causes the most serious wrong.

The welfare of the people is the ultimate law.

Ahli hukum tidak bisa menyimpang dari azas hukum. Mereka harus taat pada hukum yang berlaku.

When only cops have guns, it's called a police state.

The surest test of discipline is it's absence.

Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but unlike charity, it should end there.