Legislate Quotes
71 Legislate quotes by 67 unique authors
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Political correctness does not legislate tolerance; it only organizes hatred.
— Jacques Barzun
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The other General Welfare Clause is in the first of the authorities given to the Congress and it's not a grant, it's a restriction. By…
— Andrew Napolitano
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Reform must come from within, not from without. You cannot legislate for virtue.
— James Gibbons
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I can't take my Catholic belief, my article of faith, and legislate it on a Protestant or a Jew or an Atheist. We have separation…
— John F. Kerry
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Certain things we cannot accomplish... by any process of government. We cannot legislate intelligence. We cannot legislate morality. No, and we cannot legislate loyalty, for…
— Alfred Whitney Griswold
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It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creeds into law if it acquires the political power to do…
— Robert A. Heinlein
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One cannot legislate the maniacs off the street... these maniacs can only be shut down by an armed citizenry. Indeed bad things can happen in…
— Jeff Cooper
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The obligation of human beings to support and obey human governments, while they legislate upon the principles of the moral law, is an unalterable as…
— Charles Grandison Finney
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You can’t really legislate for the decisions that your heart makes.
— Tom Hiddleston
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As the elephant is powerless to think in the terms of the ant, in spite of the best intentions in the world, even so is…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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Man never legislates,but destinies and accidents,happening in all sorts of ways,legislate in all sorts of ways.
— Plato
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There are two ideas of government. There are those who believe that, if you will only legislate to make the well-to-do prosperous, their prosperity will…
— William Jennings Bryan
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Of course, you can't legislate for how people are going to read
— Paul Muldoon
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Lord, give us righteous judges who will not try to legislate and dominate this society. Take control, Lord! We ask for additional vacancies on the…
— Pat Robertson
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Technology will move faster than governments, so don't legislate before you understand the consequences
— Eric Schmidt
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For years, liberals have demonstrated a near religious devotion to the cause of 'cleaning up elections' with campaign finance reform, the wondrous panacea that would…
— Anthony Gregory
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The moment this House undertakes to legislate upon this subject slavery, it dissolves the Union. Should it be my fortune to have a seat upon…
— James Henry Hammond
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I think all we should legislate is morality.
— John Ashcroft
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If you're not electing Christians then in essence you are going to legislate sin.
— Katherine Harris
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Friend, you cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom. And what one person receives without working for, another person…
— Adrian Rogers
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If anyone tells you that you cannot legislate morality, remeber that legislation IS morality.
— Jay Sekulow
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You can legislate many conditions-but you cannot legislate harmony into the hearts of men. To attain industrial peace, we need more than by-laws and compulsory…
— Clarence Francis
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You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom.
— Adrian Rogers
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One cannot legislate problems out of existence. It has been tried.
— Norman Ralph Augustine
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Democrats legislate; Republicans investigate.
— Lyndon B. Johnson
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