Quotes about Regulation

There is no right to strike against the public safety by anybody, anywhere, anytime.

So many laws argue so many sins.

Taste cannot be controlled by law.

Two million felons have tried to buy a gun and, because of the background check, have been denied.

Every government interference in the economy consists of giving an unearned benefit, extorted by force, to some men at the expense of others.

You cannot make men good by law.

The fact is there are a lot of things happening at the federal level that are absolutely beyond the jurisdiction of the Constitution. This is power that should be shifted back to the states, whether it's the EPA - there is no role at the federal level for the Department of Education.

I was the youngest in the world in history when I started, 15. That's illegal now.

Government help to business is just as disastrous as government persecution... the only way a government can be of service to national prosperity is by keeping its hands off.

A free economy cannot exist without competition. Therefore, men must be forced to compete. Therefore, we must control men in order to force them to be free.

The study of law can be disappointing at times, a matter of applying narrow rules and arcane procedure to an uncooperative reality; a sort of glorified accounting that serves to regulate the affairs of those who have power—and that all too often seeks to explain, to those who do not, the ultimate wisdom and justness of their condition. But

The weapon had a built-in timer that would prevent it from firing for another twelve hours (a "cooling-off period") (...).