Quotes About Legislation

To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all laws into contempt.

A man should have a right to be religious if he wants to. The government should not be involved in those decisions.

Men do not make laws. They do but discover them.

Congressman is the trivialist distinction for a full grown man.

My old man claimed that the more complicated the law the more opportunity for scoundrels.

Man never legislates,but destinies and accidents,happening in all sorts of ways,legislate in all sorts of ways.

No man can be a competent legislator who does not add to an upright intention and a sound judgment a certain degree of knowledge of the subject on which he is to legislate.

Either fraternity is spontaneous, or it does not exist. To decree it is to annihilate it. The law can indeed force men to remain just; in vain would it try to force them to be self-sacrificing.

One side-effect of the so-called war on terror has been a crisis of liberalism. This is not only a question of alarmingly illiberal legislation, but a more general problem of how the liberal state deals with its anti-liberal enemies.

Virginia Governor Ralph Northam now wants to be "civil" about killing newborns. He ended his response to questions about approving third-trimester abortions by saying, "So again, as I said in my comments about this earlier, we can agree to disagree, but let's be civil about it." Dr.

It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin it by bad laws.

The President and the Congress are all very well in their way. They can say what they think they think, but it rests with the Supreme Court to decide what they have really thought.

You can't solve a problem as complex as inequality in one legal clause.

I hold it to be impracticable"4 to try to define it or any right narrowly in a Bill of Rights.

Unde omnis lex humanitus posita intantum habet de ratione legis, inquantum a lege naturae derivatur. Si vero in aliquo a lege naturali discordet, iam non erit lex sed legis corruptio.

We call laws just from three perspectives: (1) from their end, namely, when they are ordained for the common good; (2) from their authority, namely, when the laws enacted do not surpass the power of the lawmakers; (3) from their form, namely, when they impose proportionately equal burdens on citizens for the common good.

I'm still a reservist. We have three drilling reservists in the Senate. Senator Graham serves in the Air Force, Senator Brown serves in the Army, and I serve in the Navy.

Cap and trade is not an easy one for refiners, so we tried to get some moderation in the bill, and we did, but not near as much I would like.

The most money we have ever been able to get appropriated for the juvenile justice bills was $55 million a year, about one-tenth of what was necessary.

The law is only our best approximation of justice, and the law needs constant revision.

It's the job of the president to negotiate, but it's the job of Congress to approve.

I think net neutrality needs to be explored in a broader sense.

We don't want crimes committed in New Mexico falling through the cracks. This legislation ensures that there is no area of our state where crimes can be committed without consequence.

In New Mexico... I may have vetoed more legislation as governor of New Mexico than all the other governors in the country combined.