Quotes about Legislation

If I studied all my life, I couldn't think up half the number of funny things passed in one session of congress.

You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom.

What is the good of telling a community that it has every liberty except the liberty to make laws? The liberty to make laws is what constitutes a free people.

The purpose of the law is not to prevent a future offense, but to punish the one actually committed.

I have wondered at times what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the US Congress.

I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.

English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation.

Jesus sticks to scripture, which they can hardly fault. But in doing so he demonstrates that he is speaking from a world in which God, becoming king on earth as in heaven, is transforming the very hearts of human beings as part of his project of new creation. Jesus's hearers, thinking from within a world where the legislation for the hard-hearted still applies, cannot even recognize the kingdom when it is breaking in right there in their midst.

While some say a total shutdown of religions and personal freedoms could never occur in the United States, just remember, the Russian Tzars never realized the impact of the Communist revolution until they were removed. The German people were deceived into thinking Hitler would be a positive leader. In our nation, oppressive and freedom-killing legislation would be the method used to chain targeted groups to the pillar of silence and irrelevance.

By me kings reign, and rulers enact just laws;

Woe to those who enact unjust statutes and issue oppressive decrees,

To argue that because Old Testament law does not prescribe explicit penalties related to infringement of its economic legislation, therefore modern civil authorities are excluded from any form of intervention in the economic marketplace betrays both the inadequacy of theonomism's preoccupation with penalties and also, in my view, its ideological bias towards unfettered, free-market economic capitalism.