Quotes about Regulation
The corporation that shrinks from the light" would have anything to fear from government. About the welfare of such corporations we need not be oversensitive.
- Theodore Roosevelt
Medicare will usher in federal programs that will invade every area of freedom as we have know it in this country.
- Ronald Reagan
The power of the State must be invoked for restoring economic freedom just as it has been invoked for destroying economic freedom.
- Hilaire Belloc
Man is not free unless government is limited.
- Ronald Reagan
The purpose of the law is not to prevent a future offense, but to punish the one actually committed.
- Ayn Rand
It is the nature of God's Word and the regulation of His will first to destroy what is in us and reduce to nothing whatever we are, and then erect His own structure.
- Martin Luther
The less government interferes with private pursuits, the better for general prosperity.
- Martin Van Buren
English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation.
- Anonymous
Any tax is a discouragement and therefore a regulation so far as it goes.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
If an ox gores a man or woman to death, the ox must surely be stoned, and its meat must not be eaten. But the owner of the ox shall not be held responsible.
- Exodus 21:28
If the ox gores a son or a daughter, it shall be done to him according to the same rule.
- Exodus 21:31
But if it was known that the ox had a habit of goring, yet its owner failed to restrain it, he shall pay full compensation, ox for ox, and the dead animal will be his.
- Exodus 21:36