Character Quote by John Price

If anyone tells you that you cannot legislate morality, remeber that legislation IS morality.

— Anonymous

I think all we should legislate is morality.

— John Ashcroft

“Our increasingly humanistic laws, courts and legislators are giving us a new morality. They tell us, as they strike down laws resting upon biblical…

— R.J. Rushdoony

“What then is the relation of law to morality? Law cannot prescribe morality, it can prescribe only external actions and therefore it should prescribe…

— Anonymous

You can't legislate morality.

— Jesse Ventura

“You can be moral without following the law, and you can be immoral while following the law.”

— Brandon Sanderson

I think it is very difficult to legislate for morality.

— Ben Elton

You can't legislate morality- my dad

— Trevor Maxwell

It is true that legality is not morality, and sticking to the law is necessary for good citizenship, but it is not sufficient.

— Julian Baggini

Any politician who tells you morality has nothing to do with the law and government is about to do something extremely immoral.

— Joseph Farah

How does something immoral, when done privately, become moral when it is done collectively? Furthermore, does legality establish morality? Slavery was legal; apartheid is…

— Walter E. Williams

Law is the embodiment of the moral sentiment of the people.

— William Blackstone