Bible Quote by Henry David Thoreau

“My little friend Grildrig; you have made a most admirable panegyrick upon your country. You have clearly proved that ignorance, idleness, and vice, are…

— Jonathan Swift

The legislator must be in advance of his age. Across the mind of the statesman flash ever and anon the brilliant, though partial, intimations…

— Woodrow Wilson

“MOST legislators have been men of inferior capacity whom chance exalted over their fellows, and who took counsel almost exclusively of their own prejudices…

— Montesquieu

The legislator commands the future; to be feeble will avail him nothing: it is for him to will what is good and to perpetuate…

— Louis Antoine de Saint-Just

The wise legislator will only rarely initiate a new rule of behaviour; more usually he will confine himself to affirming in law what has…

— Gregory Bateson

The job of a legislator is much more fixing existing law, revising it, improving it, than it is passing something that doesn't exist.

— Tim Kaine

I'm a politician. What I say is not holy writ.

— Jacob K. Javits

No man can be a competent legislator who does not add to an upright intention and a sound judgment a certain degree of knowledge…

— James Madison

Im a politician. What I say is not holy writ.

— Jacob K. Javits

It is not true that the legislator has absolute power over our persons and property. The existence of persons and property preceded the existence…

— Frederic Bastiat

The legislature, like the executive, has ceased to be even the creature of the people: it is the creature of pressure groups, and most…

— H. L. Mencken

The legislator is an indispensable guardian of our freedom. It is true that great executives have played a powerful role in the development of…

— J. William Fulbright