Bills Quote by Calvin Coolidge

We do not sit as a superlegislature to weigh the wisdom of legislation.

— William O. Douglas

I would rather have a plain down-right wisdom than a foolish and affected eloquence.

— Ben Jonson

Memo to future presidents: Never stake your entire survival on the painful passing of a bad bill. Never take the country down the road…

— Peggy Noonan

Every indication of wisdom, taken from the effect, is equally an indication of power to execute what wisdom planned.

— Thomas Reid

As a man of the Congress, let me reaffirm my conviction that the collective wisdom of our two great legislative bodies while not infallible…

— Gerald R. Ford

“Today Congress operates not as the Framers intended, but in the shadows, where it dreams up its most notorious and oppressive laws, coming into…

— Mark R. Levin

It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law

— Thomas Hobbes

“Wisdom is the thin conduit between two opposing viewpoints”

— Val Uchendu

True wisdom knows it must comprise some nonsense as a compromise, lest fools should fail to find it wise.

— Piet Pieterszoon Hein

Nowhere is wisdom more necessary than in the guidance of charitable impulses. Meaning well is only half our duty; Thinking right is the other,…

— Samuel Gridley Howe

What doth better become wisdom than to discern what is worthy the living.

— Philip Sidney

Wisdom has its excesses, and has no less need of moderation than folly.

— Michel de Montaigne