(1175 quotes found)
“Prohibition goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation and makes crimes out of things that are not crimes.”
Abraham Lincoln
“I know we can't abolish prejudice through laws, but we can set up guidelines for our actions by legislation.”
Belva Lockwood
“The world is not going to be saved by legislation.”
William Howard Taft
“You can't legislate intelligence and common sense into people”
Will Rogers
“My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you I just signed legislation which outlaws Russia forever. The bombing will begin in five minutes. - During radio microphone test”
Ronald Reagan
“The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation”
Jeremy Bentham
“Too many people in America believe that if you are pro-choice that means pro-abortion. It doesn't. I don't want abortion. Abortion should be the rarest thing in the world. I am actually personally opposed to abortion. But I don't believe that I have a right to take what is an article of faith to me and legislate it to other people. That's not how it works in America.”
Senator John Kerry
“Legislation to apply the principle of equal pay for equal work without discrimination because of sex is a matter of simple justice”
Dwight David Eisenhower
“Once you attempt legislation upon religious grounds, you open the way for every kind of intolerance and religious persecution”
William Butler Yeats
“Inflation is taxation without legislation”
Milton Friedman
