Quotes about Legislation
No man with a genius for legislation has appeared in America. They are rare in the history of the world.
— Henry David Thoreau
'Getting smart on crime' does not mean reducing sentences or punishments for crimes.
— Kamala Harris
Outlaw all abortions; err on the side of life.
— Mike Huckabee
It would then be most admirably adapted to the purposes of justice, if laws properly enacted were, as far as circumstances admitted, of themselves to mark out all cases, and to abandon as few as possible to the discretion of the judge.
— Aristotle
Law is mind without reason.
— Aristotle
Law without education is a dead letter. With education the needed law follows without effort and, of course, with power to execute itself indeed, it seems to execute itself.
— Rutherford B. Hayes
If a tax hike makes it to my desk, I'll veto it in less time than it takes Vanna White to turn the letters V-E-T-O!
— Ronald Reagan
It is a rare piece of legislation indeed where there is so much agreement about the goals.
— Mike Pence
The law is the last result of human wisdom acting upon human experience for the benefit of the public.
— Samuel Johnson
From whence it is evident, that those who seek for what is just, seek for a mean; now law is a mean.
— Aristotle
Children and unborn children should be protected by law and welcomed into life.
— George W. Bush
Denying rights that protect lesser values to maintain rights that protect greater values is what good laws are supposed to do.
— John Piper