| "Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny." »George Santayana |
| "Inflation is the one form of taxation that can be imposed without legislation." »Milton Friedman |
| "The great lawyer who employs his talent and his learning in the highly emunerative task of enabling a very wealthy client to override or circumvent the law is doing all that in him lies to encourage the growth in the country of a spirit of dumb anger against all laws and of disbelief in their efficacy." »Theodore Roosevelt |
| "When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators." »P. J. O'Rourke |
| "Our neighbors in Virginia are just as responsible for these killings as the criminals are because they won't pass strong gun control legislation." »Marion Shepilov Barry, Jr. |
| "My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you I just signed legislation which outlaws Russia forever. The bombing begins in five minutes." »Ronald Reagan |
| "One of the greatest delusions in the world is the hope that the evils in this world are to be cured by legislation." »Thomas B. Reed |
| "Nearly all legislation involves a weighing of public needs as against private desires and likewise a weighing of relative social values." »Louis D. Brandeis |
| "My fellow Americans I'm pleased to tell you today that I've signed legislation that will outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in five minutes. (Comment while testing a microphone before a broadcast 11 Aug 84)" »Ronald Reagan |
| "In the South where slavery still exists, the Negroes are less carefully kept apart they sometimes share the labors and the recreations of the whites the whites consent to intermix with them to a certain extent, and although legislation treats them more harshly, the habits of the people are more tolerant and compassionate." »Alexis Charles Henri Clrel de Tocqueville |
| "All legislation, all government, all society is founded upon the principle of mutual concession, politeness, comity, courtesy upon these everything is based...Let him who elevates himself above humanity, above its weaknesses, its infirmities, its wants, its necessities, say, if he pleases, I will never compromise but let no one who is not above the frailties of our common nature disdain compromises." »Henry Clay |
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