Quotes about Regulation
The wise know that foolish legislation is a rope of sand, which perishes in the twisting.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The fundamental law of the militia is, that it be created, directed and commanded by the laws, and ever for the support of the laws.
— John Adams
We have the best government that money can buy.
— Mark Twain
Who controls the issuance of money controls the government!
— Nathan Meyer Rothschild
Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint.
— Alexander Hamilton
No tendency is quite so strong in human nature as the desire to lay down rules of conduct for other people.
— William Howard Taft
We have never stopped sin by passing laws; and in the same way, we are not going to take a great moral ideal and achieve it merely by law.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
Socialism is an attack on the right to breathe freely. No socialist system can be established without a political police.
— Winston Churchill
Law has the power to compel: indeed, the ability to enforce is a condition of the ability to command.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
You can't legislate intelligence and common sense into people
— Will Rogers
We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business?
— Will Rogers
Communism is like prohibition, it's a good idea but it won't work.
— Will Rogers