Legislator Quotes

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It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator is to create… — Aristotle
I remember coming to this college in the 1960s as a new legislator when a road divided the campus - and it was not fully… — Michael N. Castle
There is no true sovereign except the nation; there can be no true legislator except the people. — Denis Diderot
It is not only vain, but wicked, in a legislator to frame laws in opposition to the laws of nature, and to arm them with… — Thomas Jefferson
It is not true that the legislator has absolute power over our persons and property, since they pre-exist, and his work is only to secure… — Frederic Bastiat
I appeal to the contemptible speech made lately by Sir Robert Peel to an applauding House of Commons. 'Orders of merit,' said he, 'were the… — John Joseph Griffin
As a Chinese American legislator, I applaud the RNC's Growth and Opportunity Project. Engaging Asian American and Pacific Islander communities about Republican principles is a… — Kimberly Yee
When is conduct a crime, and when is a crime not a crime? When "Somebody Up There" - a monarch, a dictator, a Pope, a… — Jessica Mitford
Statistical science is indispensable to modern statesmanship. In legislation as in physical science it is beginning to be understood that we can control terrestrial forces… — James A. Garfield
I was a Georgia state legislator for a great many years — Julian Bond
The Bible carries with it the history of the creation, the fall and redemption of man, and discloses to him, in the infant born at… — John Quincy Adams
I started in the mailroom, literally, as an intern... in 1974. The legislator I was working for at the time said, 'I want you to… — Claire McCaskill
The form of law which I propose would be as follows: In a state which is desirous of being saved from the greatest of all… — Plato
I would wager that my job has helped save our economy from the economic ravages of out-of-control environmental extremism. I view my job a little… — Roy Spencer
The disorganisers are those who want to level everything: property, comforts, the price of commodities, the various services rendered to the State... who want the… — Jacques Pierre Brissot
Music, of all the liberal arts, has the greatest influence over the passions, and it is that to which the legislator ought to give the… — Napoleon Bonaparte
Usurpers always bring about or select troublous times to get passed, under cover of the public terror, destructive laws, which the people would never adopt… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
As property, honestly obtained, is best secured by an equality of rights, so ill-gotten property depends for protection on a monopoly of rights. He who… — Thomas Paine
I think any advocate who is effective has fully acquainted himself or herself with the legislator they are going to meet. Know what committees they… — Mark Shields
At what point do the people tell the politicians to go to hell? At what point do they get off the couch, march down to… — Erick Erickson

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