Born Quote by Paul Hasluck

We [Americans] inherited British law, which is like the new "reforms" that are being made now, in the sense that people are permanently entrapped…

— Marilynne Robinson

As a child of the Commonwealth, I had been brought up to believe Great Britain was the promised land, a culture where the rule…

— Gina Miller

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

People's lives have to change as a result of this legislation.

— Major Owens

The law of England is the greatest grievance of the nation, very expensive and dilatory.

— Gilbert Burnet

“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 status of 'native' is a nervous condition introduced and maintained by the settler among colonized people with their consent.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

“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

Legislation has a certain jurisdiction. It can't change mindsets and hearts.

— Smriti Irani

The thinking was that so long as the British kept our basic documents in their hands and so long as they kept the formal…

— Stockwell Day

Over Legislation is not necessarily a virtue. It often leads to misuse of law.

— Arun Jaitley

Its possible to shape a law that upholds our tradition as a nation of laws and a nation of immigrants.

— Barack Obama