Quotes about Legislation

You cannot make men good by law.

Leadership isn't just legislation, that it's a matter of persuading people and giving them confidence, and bringing them together and setting a tone.

I believe that there are parts to human nature that cannot be reached by either legislation or education, but require the power of God to deal with.

Gradually, the unthinkable becomes tolerable, then acceptable, then legal, then praised.

I wouldn't approach the issue of judging in the way the president does. Judges can't rely on what's in their heart. They don't determine the law. Congress makes the law. The job of a judge is to apply the law.

Some leaders may be honest and good but unwise in legislation they choose to support. Others may possess wisdom but be dishonest and unvirtuous. We must be concerted in our desires and efforts to see men and women represent us who possess all three of these qualities.

No man with a genius for legislation has appeared in America. They are rare in the history of the world.

'Getting smart on crime' does not mean reducing sentences or punishments for crimes.

Outlaw all abortions; err on the side of life.

It would then be most admirably adapted to the purposes of justice, if laws properly enacted were, as far as circumstances admitted, of themselves to mark out all cases, and to abandon as few as possible to the discretion of the judge.

Law is mind without reason.

Law without education is a dead letter. With education the needed law follows without effort and, of course, with power to execute itself indeed, it seems to execute itself.