Our Laws Quotes
54 quotes by 51 authors
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The people who are worried about privacy have a legitimate worry. But we live in a complex world where you're going to have to have…
— Michael Bloomberg
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By the time President Obama took office, Guantanamo was viewed internationally as a symbol of a counterterrorism approach that flouted our laws and strayed from…
— John O. Brennan
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Born in other countries, yet believing you could be happy in this, our laws acknowledge, as they should do, your right to join us in…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Our laws were not designed to accommodate three or four thousand refugees coming here per day. Our laws were designed for people to be screened…
— Jimmy Carter
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Most illegal immigrants are not by nature lawbreakers. Most are looking for the chance to live in dignity. Nevertheless we must continue to discourage illegal…
— William J. Clinton
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The ongoing migration of persons to the United States in violation of our laws is a serious national problem detrimental to the interests of the…
— Ronald Reagan
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If you laid all our laws end to end, there would be no end.
— Arthur Baer
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I would be the last to disparage the genius of the politicians who make our laws," Hutchison wrote around that time, "the writers who make…
— Bruce Hutchison
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Our liberty depends on our education, our laws, and habits . . . it is founded on morals and religion, whose authority reigns in the…
— Fisher Ames
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It is due to justice; due to humanity; due to truth; due to the sympathies of our nature; in fine, to our character as a…
— James Madison
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It seems not more reasonable to leave the right of printing unrestrained, because writers may be afterwards censured, than it would be to sleep with…
— Samuel Johnson
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The instability of our laws is really an immense evil. I think it would be well to provide in our constitutions that there shall always…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Thus far women have been the mere echoes of men. Our laws and constitutions, our creeds and codes, and the customs of social life are…
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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Hate crimes based on sexual orientation are among the three top reported hate crimes after race and religion, ... Our laws should not ignore that…
— Janet Reno
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Today courts wrongly interpret separation of church and state to mean that religion has no place in the public arena, or that morality derived from…
— Dinesh D'Souza
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It is distressing to me that we live in an age in which we still must fight to protect our civil rights as Americans, in…
— John Conyers
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To change our laws and culture, the green movement must attract and include the majority of all people, not just the majority of affluent people.
— Van Jones
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In our hearts and in our laws, we must treat all our people with fairness and dignity, regardless of their race, religion, gender or sexual…
— William J. Clinton
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Real lobbying reform must end the practice of corporate lobbyists writing our laws.
— Marty Meehan
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The opposite of addiction is human connection. And I think that has massive implications for the war on drugs. The treatment of drug addicts almost…
— Johann Hari
Who Wrote These Our Laws Quotes
51 authors contributed a total of 54 Our Laws Quotes, led by these top contributors: