Top 93 Quotes About Legislate
#1. Lord, give us righteous judges who will not try to legislate and dominate this society. Take control, Lord! We ask for additional vacancies on the court.
Pat Robertson
#2. Pat Moynihan could write books with one hand and legislate with the other. I can't; I have a short attention span. The slightest distraction would take me away from writing.
Barney Frank
#4. You can't legislate intelligence and common sense into people.
Will Rogers
#5. Of course, you can't legislate for how people are going to read.
Paul Muldoon
#6. If you have no authority to legislate my freedoms, then I'm truly free, at least from you.
William A. Dembski
#7. We cannot legislate equality but we can legislate ... equal opportunity for all.
Helen Gahagan Douglas
#8. This nation is able to legislate for its own people on every question, without waiting for the aid or consent of any other nation on earth.
William Jennings Bryan
#9. I think it is very difficult to legislate for morality.
Ben Elton
#10. There is very little truth in the old refrain that one cannot legislate equality. Laws not only provide concrete benefits, they can even change the hearts of men - some men, anyhow - for good or evil.
Gilbert King
#11. I think Chairman Davis has said he would always prefer that baseball strengthens its own policies and not leave it to Congress to legislate. In the absence of any action, he believes Congress is ready to move forward.
Robert J. White
#12. With true free speech has to come an understanding of when and when not to use it. But you can't legislate that. It must be voluntary - especially in a world where a whisper can reach a million people in an eye blink.
Nick Harkaway
#14. Gay people are born everyday. You will never legislate that away.
Melissa Etheridge
#15. The obligation of human beings to support and obey human governments, while they legislate upon the principles of the moral law, is an unalterable as the moral law itself.
Charles Grandison Finney
#16. You don't get to legislate the parameters of my confidence. I get to feel good about myself because I am a person; my size has nothing to do with it. IN
Brittany Gibbons
#17. The Koran and the laws of all civilized nations legislate against the vilification of religions.
Naguib Mahfouz
#19. I understand all too well that you can make legislation but you can't legislate how people feel toward one another.
Jerry West
#20. But the law is made, generally, by one man, or by one class of men. And as law cannot exist without the sanction and the support of a preponderating force, it must finally place this force in the hands of those who legislate. This
Frederic Bastiat
#21. A big tent is great and all, but there has to be a line in the sand, and I'm pretty sure the desire to legislate other women's bodies is it.
Andi Zeisler
#22. You can legislate many conditions-but you cannot legislate harmony into the hearts of men. To attain industrial peace, we need more than by-laws and compulsory rules.
Clarence Francis
#23. one cannot legislate, dictate, or veto the laws of physics, and politics has no place in technical decisions. The
Allan J. McDonald
#24. I think culture precedes politics, and I think the attempts to try and legislate people's behavior ... isn't going to be productive until the culture decides what they want to achieve.
Foster Friess
#25. It's hard to legislate what people eat. People are getting fed up with being told what they can and can't do. It boils down to personal responsibility. People need to read labels, do their research and act accordingly.
Tom Douglas
#26. He's a lovely guy, but there's no spark between us whatsoever. It just goes to show, that even with all their fancy assessment tools, the government can't legislate for chemistry.
Siobhan Davis
#27. You cannot legislate language. Prohibition never worked, right? Not for booze and not for sex and not for words.
Mary Norris
#28. Reform must come from within, not from without. You cannot legislate for virtue.
James Gibbons
#29. It is impossible to legislate without legislating morality. Try to think of a law that is not based on a moral idea; you won't be able to do it.
J. Budziszewski
#30. In many countries adult pornography legislation is an attempt to legislate something else.
Eric Schmidt
#31. We legislate against forestalling and monopoly; we would have a common granary for the poor; but the selfishness which hoards thecorn for high prices, is the preventative of famine; and the law of self-preservation is surer policy than any legislation can be.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#32. Man never legislates, but destinies and accidents, happening in all sorts of ways, legislate in all sorts of ways.
Plato
#34. The heart of the issue is an issue of the heart. And that's why I'm a pastor, not a politician. Because I think only - only God can change hearts. And only God can take the evil out. I don't think you can legislate the evil out of people.
Rick Warren
#35. I would do a Byrds tour or a Byrds record in a minute. I miss that band now. I've tried to convince Roger over and over to do it, but he's not interested. Music isn't something you can legislate into being.
David Crosby
#36. Technology will move faster than governments, so don't legislate before you understand the consequences
Eric Schmidt
#37. It pains me deeply to see members of my own party attempting to legislate women's health and contraception choices.
Linda Lingle
#38. It's a hard thing to legislate. You can't legislate good taste and you can't put a number on it in terms of square footage. It's a question of where individual rights end and community rights begin.
Ann Robinson
#39. I can't take my Catholic belief, my article of faith, and legislate it on a Protestant or a Jew or an Atheist. We have separation of church and state in the United States of America.
John F. Kerry
#40. Women administer the home. They set the rules, enforce them, mete out justice for violations. Thus, like Congress, they legislate; like the Executive, they administer; like the courts, they interpret the rules. It is an ideal experience for politics.
Margaret Chase Smith
#42. You can't legislate or litigate good, healthy behavior but we must be willing to educate people at an early age about the affects of unhealthy living.
Zack Wamp
#43. It was all about hate. There should be laws. We're there laws? Can you legislate against hatred?
Julie Anne Peters
#44. There is a desperate tendency to try to legislate artists, to try to lay down rules for their obligations to society. Just leave artists alone. If you are a true artist, you will have a very finely tuned moral mechanism.
Athol Fugard
#45. No man can be a competent legislator who does not add to an upright intention and a sound judgment a certain degree of knowledge of the subject on which he is to legislate.
James Madison
#46. One cannot legislate the maniacs off the street ... these maniacs can only be shut down by an armed citizenry. Indeed bad things can happen in nations where the citizenry is armed, but not as bad as those which seem to be threatening our disarmed citizenry in this country at this time.
Jeff Cooper
#47. We can't legislate the creation of jobs, but we can legislate things that will allow jobs to be created.
Mike Lee
#49. We should be supportive of the president and supportive of rights of all in a pluralistic democracy that we're called to love. And we live our faith; we don't legislate our faith.
Otis Moss III
#50. I am proud to stand with the millions of women and men who recognize that our government should legislate according to the reality of our lives - not for ideology.
Sandra Fluke
#51. Love isn't something you can legislate. Love is more than charts and graphs and matching interests. Love is messy and complicated and it is a mistake to deny its random magic.
Amy Engel
#52. I'm into it, I'm into MP3's; I think there's no way you're ever going to be able to legislate people having to buy a record in order to listen to it. You have to look at it as a means of promotion, and if the music is good enough, promotion is a good thing.
Britt Daniel
#53. Though it's impossible for us to legislate one's thoughts and feelings, we still need things like affirmative action in place because without measures like it, people in charge would not have, sadly, enough impetus to do, as cliched as it sounds, the right thing.
Jonathan Coleman
#54. Whatever adults don't understand, because they didn't grow up with it, is the thing they're going to be afraid of and try to legislate out of existence. It happened with videogames, it happened with television, it happened with pinball parlours and rock and roll.
Warren Spector
#55. You can't legislate into existence an act of forgiveness and a true confession; those are mysteries of the human heart, and they occur between one individual and another individual, not a panel of judges sitting asking questions, trying to test your truth.
Athol Fugard
#56. We can't legislate human nature.
Taya Kyle
#57. It may be argued that peoples for whom philosophers legislate are always prosperous.
Aristotle.
#58. I can't legislate a song into being; it just will not happen for me.
David Crosby
#59. Obviously, the state's responsibility should be to legislate rules for a well-ordered society. It has no right or duty to creep into the bedrooms of the nation.
Pierre Trudeau
#60. I am a traditionalist, and I'm an innovator. Most of what I do is to weigh change and legislate to the best of my ability on what should change and what should not. Do I have a respect for tradition? Of course I do. Do I have a blind belief in it? No.
Judith Martin
#62. Taste cannot be controlled by law. We must resist at all costs any attempt to regulate our individual freedoms and to legislate our personal moralities.
Thomas Jefferson
#63. People are under the impression that dictionaries legislate language. What a dictionary does is keep track of usages over time.
Steven Pinker
#64. If you don't have collective agreements between unions and employers, governments have to legislate more.
Jacques Delors
#65. Certain things we cannot accomplish ... by any process of government. We cannot legislate intelligence. We cannot legislate morality. No, and we cannot legislate loyalty, for loyalty is a kind of morality.
Alfred Whitney Griswold
#66. I can't legislate to change human nature.
John Major
#67. One is that you legislate according to natural selection, the other is that you don't. You have compassion, you try and help people. It's a fundamental clash between two people who happen to love each other, which complicates everything.
Bill Nighy
#69. If the president uses executive orders to legislate new laws, that would be an example of him subverting legislative power from Congress, and might be considered a gross perversion of the Constitution.
Gary Hansen
#70. You can't legislate good will - that comes through education.
Malcolm X
#71. The Obama administration is on notice - they will not be allowed to regulate what they have been unable to legislate.
Fred Upton
#72. When the shadow of the Presidential and Congressional election is lifted we shall, I hope to be in a better temper to legislate.
James A. Garfield
#74. Congress has the power to legislate with regard to activity that, in the aggregate, has a substantial effect on interstate commerce.
David Souter
#75. If there be any plausible reason for supposing that we have the right to legislate on the slave interests of the District, you cannot put down the investigation of the subject out of doors, by refusing to receive petitions.
Caleb Cushing
#76. If you're not electing Christians, then in essence you are going to legislate sin.
Katherine Harris
#77. I am sure that the dangers of this system (the Federal Constitution) are real, when those who have no similar interest with the people of this country (the South) are to legislate for us - when our dearest rights are to be left, in the hands of those, whose advantage it will be to infringe them.
Patrick Henry
#78. It is easier to get one or a few of good sense, and of ability to legislate and adjudge, than to get many.
Aristotle.
#79. Political correctness does not legislate tolerance; it only organizes hatred.
Jacques Barzun
#80. Almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.
Robert A. Heinlein
#81. I'm a little skeptical about using the Constitution this way, but I also believe marriage is between a man and a woman and that the courts shouldn't legislate this matter.
Pete Coors
#82. History has shown that one cannot legislate a culture of integrity. And yet, one of the paramount responsibilities and challenges of corporate leadership is to ensure such a culture.
Preet Bharara
#83. Society has to be structured such that there are checks and balances, so that it can't be manipulated, for instance, for the profit of just some multinational company who's going to get rich on trying to legislate the environment.
Greg Graffin
#84. It is our job, as members of parliament, to legislate with an eye to the long term future, to look over the horizon beyond the next election and ensure that as far as we can what we do today will make Australia a better place, a safer place, for future generations to live in.
Malcolm Turnbull
#85. If anyone tells you that you cannot legislate morality, remeber that legislation IS morality.
Jay Alan Sekulow
#86. Dr. King once said, "You cannot legislate goodness, and you cannot pass a law to force someone to respect you. The only way to social justice, in a capitalist country, is through economic parity."
John Hope Bryant
#87. I've been campaigning for 17 of the last 24 months. I'm ready to legislate and not campaign.
John Y. Campbell
#88. You can't really legislate for the decisions that your heart makes.
Tom Hiddleston
#89. We don't legislate emergent technologies into existence. We almost never do. They just emerge, dragged forth by Adam Smith's invisible hand. Then we have to see what people are actually going to do with them, and try to legislate to take account of that.
William Gibson
#90. As the elephant is powerless to think in the terms of the ant, in spite of the best intentions in the world, even so is the Englishman powerless to think in the terms of, or legislate for, the Indian.
Mahatma Gandhi
#91. But our hope does not lie in enforcing our ethic upon secular governments. We can't legislate the kingdom of God into existence.
Preston Sprinkle
#92. In fact, it is often times a detriment for the Government to preemptively legislate on an issue before we can either define it or grasp its impact.
Steve Buyer
#93. Maybe the Jefferson case will give members of Congress second thoughts the next time they get ready to legislate away the rights of ordinary Americans.
Helen Thomas
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