Legislature Quote by John Adams Download Open image “When legislature is corrupted, the people are undone.” — John Adams ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Legislature People Undone
When once a Republic is corrupted, there is no possibility of remedying any of the growing evils but by removing the corruption and restoring… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The government is corrupted. It's corrupted. It is not about regular people. — Steve Schmidt Copy Share Image
What happens when you have vast legislative overreach is you don't particularly fix the problem you started out to fix but create problems for… — Carly Fiorina Copy Share Image
“The people are committed to ruinous policies, all without noticing. They have neither the experience nor the time to study all these laws and… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
...if the citizens neglect their Duty and place unprincipled men in office, the government will soon be corrupted; laws will be made, not for… — Noah Webster Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
The greatest single virtue of a strong legislature is not what it can do, but what it can prevent. — J. William Fulbright Copy Share Image
Historically, usury was defined as any interest whatever on an unproductive loan.Our whole banking system I have ever abhorred, I continue to abhor, and… — John Adams Copy Share Image
“Daughter! Get you an honest Man for a Husband, and keep him honest. No matter whether he is rich, provided he be independent. Regard… — John Adams Copy Share Image
The general principles on which the fathers achieved independence were the general principles of Christianity — John Adams Copy Share Image
We may... affirm that the balance of power in a society accompanies the balance of property in land. The only possible way, then, of… — John Adams Copy Share Image
“The longer I live, the more I read, the more patiently I think, and the more anxiously I inquire, the less I seem to… — John Adams Copy Share Image
But what do we mean by the American Revolution? Do we mean the American war? The Revolution was effected before the war commenced. The… — John Adams Copy Share Image
“Upon common theaters, indeed, the applause of the audience is of more importance to the actors than their own aprobation. But upon the stage… — John Adams Copy Share Image
There are only two creatures of value on the face of the earth: those with the commitment, and those who require the commitment of… — John Adams Copy Share Image
I will insist the Hebrews have [contributed] more to civilize men than any other nation. If I was an atheist and believed in blind… — John Adams Copy Share Image
“Government is instituted for the common good; for the protection, safety, prosperity and happiness of the people; and not for the profit, honor, or… — John Adams Copy Share Image
During the whole time I sat with him in Congress, I never heard him utter three sentences together. — John Adams Copy Share Image
Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Realizing that they can't get their agenda across: against religious liberty, against a culture of life, they can't get those issues across through the… — Rod Parsley Copy Share Image
Four states where [Democrats] have the governorship and both houses of the legislature. That's it. They have lost seats. They are not gonna win… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
This is a difference between being a governor and being in a legislature. Because when something doesn't work in New Jersey, they look at… — Chris Christie Copy Share Image
When I was elected governor of my state, I had a legislature 87 percent Democrat. It was not lost on me that to get… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
The legislature have anxiously provided for those most useful and deserving body of men, the seamen and marines of this country. — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
The late proceedings of those daring invaders to establish a national religion have opened the eyes of all lovers of liberty and religion... I… — Anne Royall Copy Share Image
It is not the legitimate province of the Legislature to determine which religion is true, or what false. Our government is a civil, and… — Richard Mentor Johnson Copy Share Image
It has always been thought perfectly womanly to be a scrub- woman in the Legislature and to take care of the spittoons; that is… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
I don't think you can make a lawyer honest by an act of legislature. You've got to work on his conscience. And his lack… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
Marriage has been defined by every legislature that has ever sat in the United States from every State, now 50 States, the same way,… — Jeff Sessions Copy Share Image
Democrats are not a national party. They have lost governorships, state legislatures, mayoralties. They have lost 1,500 seats since elections, 2010, '12, '14, it's… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image