Quotes about Regulation
We have to learn how to control our minds. We have to learn self-control.
— Francis Chan
A prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded.
— Abraham Lincoln
Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
You can control yourself if you really want to. I'll tell you how I know you can control yourself. If you were in a full fledged emotional temper tantrum in your house and I knocked on your front door..... Come on! Let me tell you what, you would get control of yourself, and it would only take a few seconds.
— Joyce Meyer
The wise know that foolish legislation is a rope of sand, which perishes in the twisting.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The fundamental law of the militia is, that it be created, directed and commanded by the laws, and ever for the support of the laws.
— John Adams
We have the best government that money can buy.
— Mark Twain
Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint.
— Alexander Hamilton
No tendency is quite so strong in human nature as the desire to lay down rules of conduct for other people.
— William Howard Taft
We have never stopped sin by passing laws; and in the same way, we are not going to take a great moral ideal and achieve it merely by law.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
Socialism is an attack on the right to breathe freely. No socialist system can be established without a political police.
— Winston Churchill
Law has the power to compel: indeed, the ability to enforce is a condition of the ability to command.
— St. Thomas Aquinas