Legislation Quotes - Page 13

• The true Church preaches REGENERATION; not reformation, not education, not legislation, but regeneration.

  M. R. DeHaan

  Inspiration, Church, Regeneration

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• I say statecraft is soulcraft. Just as all education is moral education because learning conditions conduct, most legislation is moral legislations because it conditions the action and the thought of the nation in broad and important spheres in life.

  George Will

  Important, Spheres, Ethics

  George F. Will (1984). “Statecraft as Soulcraft”, p.19, Simon and Schuster

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• I had been involved in animal welfare groups, but DDAL presented an opportunity to actually create and pass legislation aimed at issues which really matter to so many people. From local spaying and neutering ordinances, to legislation against puppy mills, to standards to prevent animals from being tested for the sake of a new cosmetic, we could - and did - make a difference.

  Doris Day

  Animal, Opportunity, Differences

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• I told him last Monday that I felt the way things were going it was unlikely that I would be able to vote for the legislation.

  Lucinda Creighton

  Monday, Gay, Would Be

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• We have other legislation that all of you are aware that I have been so active on, with my colleagues here, and that is to shut down the gun shows.

  Frank Lautenberg

  Gun, Shows, Colleagues

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• The beneficial effect of state intervention, especially in the form of legislation, is direct, immediate, and so to speak, visible, while its evil effects are gradual and indirect and lay out of sight ... Hence the majority of mankind must almost of necessity look with undue favor upon governmental intervention.

  A. V. Dicey

  Sight, Evil, Liberty

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• If greatness of purpose, smallness of means, and astonishing results are the three criteria of a human genius, who could dare compare any great man in history with Muhammad? The most famous men created arms, laws, and empires only. They founded, if anything at all, no more than material powers which often crumbled away before their eyes. This man moved not only armies, legislations, empires, peoples, dynasties, but millions of men in one-third of the then inhabited world; and more than that, he moved the altars, the gods, the religions, the ideas, the beliefs and the souls.

  Alphonse de Lamartine

  Eye, Mean, Army

  "Histoire de la Turquie", Volume 1, (p. 277), 1854.

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• The American heritage was one of individual liberty, personal responsibility and freedom from government ... Unfortunately ... that heritage has been lost. Americans no longer have the freedom to direct their own lives ... Today, it is the government that is free - free to do whatever it wants. There is no subject, no issue, no matter ... that is not subject to legislation.

  Harry Browne

  Responsibility, Issues, Government

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• If we do not halt this steady process of building commissions and regulatory bodies and the special legislation like huge inverted pyramids over every one of the simple constitutional provisions, we shall soon be spending many billions of dollars more.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Simple, Pyramids, Liberty

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1941). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1940, Volume 9”, p.573, Best Books on

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• Each Act of Parliament intended to address harassment and discrimination has faced objections on the basis of 'you'll never be able to prove...' and 'there's too much legislation already...'. In no case has this line of reasoning ever been sustained.

  Tim Field

  Bullying, Addresses, Lines

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• Selfishness and fear are at the root of (pro-abortion) legislation...We in the Church have a great struggle to defend life...life is a gift not a threat.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Struggle, Roots, Abortion

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• I say further that for this great legislative body to ignore the Constitution and the fundamental concepts of our governmental system is to act in a manner which could ultimately destroy the freedom of all American citizens, including the freedoms of the very persons whose feelings and whose liberties are the major subject of this legislation.

  Barry Goldwater

  Feelings, Liberty, Body

  Barry Morris Goldwater (1964). “Where I stand”

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• This is a matter of vital importance to the public safety ... While we recognize that assault-weapon legislation will not stop all assault-weapon crime, statistics prove that we can dry up the supply of these guns, making them less accessible to criminals.

  Ronald Reagan

  Gun, Assault Weapons, Dry Up

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• If gun laws in fact worked, the sponsors of this type of legislation should have no difficulty drawing upon long lists of examples of criminal acts reduced by such legislation. That they cannot do so after a century and a half of trying - that they must sweep under the rug the southern attempts at gun control in the 1870-1910 period, the northeastern attempts in the 1920-1939 period, the attempts at both Federal and State levels in 1965-1976 - establishes the repeated, complete and inevitable failure of gun laws to control serious crime.

  Orrin Hatch

  Gun, Should Have, Law

  "The Right to Keep and Bear Arms - Report of the Subcommittee on the Constitution of the Committee on the Judiciary". Book by Dennis DeConcini and Orrin Hatch, February 1982.

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• I sympathize with people who want to ban guns, but I can't agree with them. We have to be careful in our zeal to abolish guns that we don't wind up with counter-productive legislation that will leave armed only the people most likely to do harm with them.

  Hugh Downs

  Gun, Wind, People

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• 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 Barry

  Strong, Gun, Virginia

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• The important distinction so well understood in America between a constitution established by the people, and unalterable by the government; and a law established by the government, and alterable by the government, seems to have been little understood and less observed in any other country. Wherever the supreme power of legislation has resided, has been supposed to reside also, a full power to change the form of government.

  James Madison

  Country, Government, Law

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (1852). “The Federalist, on the New Constitution, Written in 1788”, p.247

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• I appreciate the decision made by Gov. Brewer to veto this legislation. I hope that we can now move on from this controversy and assure the American people that everyone is welcome to live, work and enjoy our beautiful State of Arizona.

  John McCain

  Beautiful, Moving, Gay

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• Gradually, they learned that politics is fundamentally a great business, a struggling and a haggling for advantages, over whose lap collects the most rewards cast by the legislation-machine.

  Friedrich Naumann

  Philosophy, Struggle, Political

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• The ideas embodied in the New Deal Legislation were a compilation of those which had come to maturity under Herbert Hoover’s aegis. We all of us owed much to Hoover

  Rexford Tugwell

  Maturity, Ideas, Hoover

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• I said last year, and I still believe there are the votes in the House to pass Death with Dignity legislation.

  Shap Smith

  Believe, Years, House

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• Over Legislation is not necessarily a virtue. It often leads to misuse of law.

  Arun Jaitley

  Law, Virtue, Misuse

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• I’m an atheist, and a militant atheist when religion starts impacting on legislation.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Atheist, Militant

  "Daniel Radcliffe ends support for Liberal Democrats" by Ben Quinn, www.theguardian.com. February 5, 2012.

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• In progressive societies the concentration[of wealth] may reach a point where the strength of number in the many poor rivals the strength of ability in the few rich; then the unstable equilibrium generates a critical situation, which history has diversely met by legislation redistributing wealth or by revolution distributing poverty.

  Will Durant

  Concentration Of Wealth, Numbers, Progressive Society

  Will Durant, Ariel Durant (1968). “The lessons of history”, Simon & Schuster

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• Every piece of legislation which came to my desk in the coming years as the governor, I came down on the side of preserving the sanctity of life.

  Mitt Romney

  Years, Pieces, Sides

  "Meet the Press" with Tim Russert, www.nbcnews.com.

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