Enforce Quotes
171 quotes by 146 authors
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If the public are bound to yield obedience to laws to which they cannot give their approbation, they are slaves to those who make such…
— Samuel Adams
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That the foundation of our national policy should be laid in private morality. If individuals be not influenced by moral principles, it is in vain…
— James Madison
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The attractive idea that we can now have a parliament of man with authority to control the conduct of nations by legislation or an international…
— Elihu Root
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When a language begins to teem with books, it is tending to refinement; as those who undertake to teach others must have undergone some labour…
— Samuel Johnson
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REPUBLIC, n. A nation in which, the thing governing and the thing governed being the same, there is only a permitted authority to enforce an…
— Ambrose Bierce
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Likewise the leader of any state has to do the same, he has to enforce Shariah firmly, for he will be held in account later…
— Abu Bakar Bashir
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How then to enforce peace? Not by reason, certainly, nor by education. If a man could not look at the fact of peace and the…
— Isaac Asimov
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The law doth never enforce a man to doe a vaine thing.
— Edward Coke
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The Declaration of Independence...is not a legal prescription conferring powers upon the courts; and the Constitution's refusal to 'deny or disparage' other rights is far…
— Laura Schlessinger
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It would be catastrophic if one day these fundamentalists Christians gain enough political power to enforce their literal understanding of Mosaic Law.
— Mel White
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Chaperons, even in their days of glory, were almost never able to enforce morality; what they did was to force immorality to be discreet. This…
— Judith Martin
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The liberation of Kuwait has begun. In conjunction with the forces of our coalition partners, the United States has moved under the code name Operation…
— George H. W. Bush
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Because the worst of all worlds is when you pretend like you have an immigration policy, you make coming into the United States without our…
— Tom Tancredo
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All the judges are lawyers; they interpret and enforce our laws. There is no separation of powers where the lawyers are concerned. There is only…
— Fred Rodell
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Good cable, to enforce and draw, And be thy law, While thou didst wink and wouldst not see.
— George Herbert
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In other words, under Attorney General John Ashcroft, the FBI, the INS and the Department of Justice are so out of control that they have…
— Ann Coulter
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You don't hear TV cops griping because they have to enforce some Draconian law that shouldn't be on the books in the first place, or…
— Tom Shales
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Peace, like war, can succeed only where there is a will to enforce it, and where there is available power to enforce it.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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If even a small fraction of the money we now spend on trying to enforce drug prohibition were devoted to treatment and drug rehabilitation, in…
— Milton Friedman
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Arizona did not make illegal, illegal. It is a crime to enter or remain in the U.S. in violation of federal law. States have had…
— Russell Pearce
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