30 Quotes About Legislation

Life, faculties, production-in other words, individuality, liberty, property-this is man. And in spite of the cunning of artful political leaders, these three gifts from God precede all human legislation, and are superior to it.

I would rather contend with an honest asshole than a duplicitous diplomat.

nothing, on the other hand, can be more impenetrable to the uninitiated than a legislation founded upon precedents.

We are not typically supporters of some cause for the greater good, although those are the words that we brazenly scrawl across the banners that we energetically wave in this self-serving parade of ours. Rather, behind the glorious pomp of such sacrificial notions, we are in fact supporters of our own greater good. And when we confuse the greater good with our own greater good, we have irrefutably sentenced the greater good to the greatest death imaginable.

Does the Convocation make the laws?" Erskyll asked.Hozhet was perplexed. "Make laws, Lord Proconsul? Oh, no. We have laws."There were planets, here and there through the Empire, where an attitude like that would have been distinctly beneficial; planets with elective parliaments, every member of which felt himself obligated to get as many laws enacted during his term of office as possible.

Everyone is by absolute natural right the master of his own thoughts, and thus utter failure will attend any attempt in a commonwealth to force men to speak only as prescribed by the sovereign despite their different and opposing opinions.

Legislating morality grows big government immensely, and helps fashion the noose the government will use to ultimately hang you by.

If you want good laws, burn those you have and make new ones.

A Locrian who proposed any new law stood forth in the assembly of the people with a cord round his neck, and if the law was rejected, the innovator was instantly strangled.