Quotes About Regulation

We enact many laws that manufacture criminals, and then a few that punish them.

The law often permits what honor prohibits.

they should let some people into the library by prescription only

Our new faith-based laws have removed government as a roadblock to people of faith who hear the call.

The British civil service ... is a beautifully designed and effective braking mechanism.

It's going to require numerous IRA agents.

You guys gotta get a license to drive a Geo, but any doofus with a few good swimmers can be a father.

Homeowners' Association: the means whereby people who own homes are able to transfer their rights to the neighborhood control freaks.

The Second Amendment isn't about duck hunting or target shooting.

The definition of obscenity on the newsstands should be extended to many hunting magazines.

I don't know anyone in the hunting or sporting arena that goes out with an assault rifle.

The first thing I'd do [as a president] is de-regulate about 90-percent of the things that they've got regulation on, OK, including duck hunting. We're way over-regulated on everything.

The thought of how far the human race would have advanced without government simply staggers the imagination.

The pleasure of the senses is always regulated in accordance with the imagination. Man can aspire to felicity only by serving all the whims of his imagination.

Liberty is the right of doing whatever the laws permit.

I don't think the discus will ever attract any interest until they let us start throwing them at one another.

It would be better to have no laws at all, than to have too many.

The clean book bill will be one of the most immoral measures ever adopted. It will throw American art back into the junk heap.

The most powerful control we can ever attain, is to be in control of ourselves.

The government

A civilized society is formed when every individual in that society are bound to obey the rules and regulation which is for the benefit of their own society.

August 26, 1557, noted that Mrs. Dawson, widow of one Bryckette, a tooth-drawer, as per orders, "shall paye no quartryge to the hawse nor hange oute any signe or cloth with teethe as she heretofore hath done." Her offense: after the death of her husband, she remarried, yet carried on his trade, becoming the first woman dentist known to history.

All the law does is keep the honest people from doing illegal things.

do you have any idea how uncomfortable it is to have the whole damned EPA up your ass? Because that's what I have right now, and according to my wife, I've never had much ass, so it's getting crowded down there and I'm more than a little uncomfortable. You