Legislature Quotes - Page 9

• The most numerous objects of legislation belong to the States. Those of the National Legislature [are] but few.

  Rufus King

  States, Legislation, Objects

  Rufus King (1971). “The Life and Correspondence of Rufus King: 1755-1794”

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• It seems to many of us that if we are to avoid the eventual catastrophic world conflict we must strengthen the United Nations as a first step toward a world government patterned after our own government with a legislature, executive and judiciary, and police to enforce its international laws and keep the peace. To do that, of course, we Americans will have to yield up some of our sovereignty. That would be a bitter pill. It would take a lot of courage, a lot of faith in the new order.

  Walter Cronkite

  World Government, Yield, Order

  "United Nations, National Sovereignty and the Future of the World". Speech upon receiving the Norman Cousins Global Governance Award, the UN Delegates Dining Room, www.thirdworldtraveler.com. October 19, 1999.

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• No arbitrary regulation, no act of the legislature, can add anything to the capital of the country; it can only force it into artificial channels.

  John Ramsay McCulloch

  Country, Add, Arbitrary

  John Ramsay McCulloch (1849). “The Principles of Political Economy: With Some Inquiries Respecting Their Application, and a Sketch of the Rise and Progress of the Science”, p.226, Edinburgh : A. and C. Black

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• The power of declaring war being with the Legislature, the Executive should do nothing necessarily committing them to decide for war in preference of non-intercourse, which will be preferred by a great many.

  Thomas Jefferson

  War, Great Men, Preference

  Thomas Jefferson, Brett F. Woods (2009). “Thomas Jefferson: Thoughts on War and Revolution : Annotated Correspondence”, p.213, Algora Publishing

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• The Laws of Nature are the Laws of God, Whose authority can be superseded by no power on earth. A legislature must not obstruct our obedience to Him from whose punishment they cannot protect us. All human constitutions which contradict His laws, we are in conscience bound to disobey.

  George Mason

  Law, Punishment, Earth

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• The late proceedings of those daring invaders to establish a national religion have opened the eyes of all lovers of liberty and religion... I have been told they have thrown off the mask and are preaching to the people to elect none but godly men to represent them in the General and State Legislatures; ... what they mean by godly people, is people of their own stamp.

  Anne Royall

  Mean, Eye, Godly

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• Presidents Lincoln, Jefferson, Jackson, presidents have understood that the Supreme Court cannot make a law. They cannot make it. The legislature has to make it, the executive branch has to sign it and enforce it.

  Mike Huckabee

  Law, President, Branches

  "Mike Huckabee lays out path to 2016 Republican nomination; Amb. John Bolton talks NSA surveillance, growth of ISIS". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. May 24, 2015.

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• The proper way to make policy changes is for you to convince your fellow citizens that there is a better policy outcome than the current one. And then in state legislatures, for those state legislatures to vote that change.

  Ted Cruz

  Citizens, Outcomes, Way

  Interview with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. June 29, 2015.

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• Gabby Giffords was a mentor of mine in the state Legislature and also in Congress.

  Ann Kirkpatrick

  Mentor, States, Congress

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• There still is a war on women in terms of politicians in Washington and the state legislatures trying to eliminate any rights we have fought to win and that the Supreme Court has afforded us.

  Gloria Allred

  War, Winning, Rights

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• Equality is deemed by many a mere speculative chimera, which can never be reduced to practice. But if the abuse is inevitable, does it follow that we ought not to try at least to mitigate it? It is precisely because the force of things tends always to destroy equality that the force of the legislature must always tend to maintain it.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Equality, Practice, Abuse

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1791). “An Inquiry into the Nature of the Social Contract; or principles of political right. Translated from the French”, p.147

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• The election of a deputy to the Legislature offers a noble and majestic spectacle comparable only to the delivery of a child. It involves the same efforts, the same impurities, the same laceration, and the same triumph.

  Honore de Balzac

  Children, Effort, Majestic

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• The final battle against intolerance is to be fought - not in the chambers of any legislature - but in the hearts of men.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Heart, Men, Battle

  Address at the Hollywood Bowl, Beverly Hills, California, www.dwightdeisenhower.com. October 19, 1956.

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• No state legislature ever built a great university.

  James E. Rogers, Jr.

  States, University, Built

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• This is a difference between being a governor and being in a legislature. Because when something doesn't work in New Jersey, they look at me, say: "Why didn't it get done? Why didn't you do it?" You have to be responsible and accountable.

  Chris Christie

  Differences, Looks, Done

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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• Women are afraid. It is unpopular to question the bible. They are creatures of tradition. They fear to question their position in the testament, as they feared to advocate suffrage fifty years ago. Now they are quarreling as to which were among the first to advocate it. You see they are not used to abuse as I am. In Albany, fifty years ago, when I went before the legislature to plead for a married woman's right to her own property, the women whom I met in society crossed the street rather than speak to me.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Years, Abuse, Atheism

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• A very wise father once remarked, that in the government of his children, he forbid as few things as possible; a wise legislature would do the same. It is folly to make laws on subjects beyond human prerogative, knowing that in the very nature of things they must be set aside. To make laws that man cannot and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt. It is very important in a republic, that the people should respect the laws, for if we throw them to the winds, what becomes of civil government?

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Wise, Children, Father

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• It has always been thought perfectly womanly to be a scrub- woman in the Legislature and to take care of the spittoons; that is entirely within the charmed circle of woman's sphere; but for women to occupy any of those official seats would be degrading.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Circles, Care, Politics

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Matilda Gage, Harriot Stanton Blatch, Ida H. Harper (2017). “The Suffragettes – Complete History Of the Movement (6 Volumes in One Edition): The Battle for the Equal Rights: 1848-1922 (Including Letters, Newspaper Articles, Conference Reports, Speeches, Court Transcripts & Decisions)”, p.4257, e-artnow

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• We need a constitutional amendment to allow the legislature to control the so-called free speech rights of corporations.

  Hank Johnson

  Rights, Needs, Speech

  "Dem Rep. Hank Johnson: Amend Constitution to Restrict Freedom of Speech" by Eric Scheiner, www.cnsnews.com. November 29, 2012.

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• The people shall not be restrained from peacefully assembling and consulting for their common good, nor from applying to the legislature by petitions, or remonstrances for redress of their grievances.

  James Madison

  People, Freedom Of Speech, Common

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• Members of legislative bodies are selected by political parties, largely financed or otherwise influenced by private capitalists who, for all practical purposes, separate the electorate from the legislature. The consequence is that the representatives of the people do not in fact sufficiently protect the interests of the underprivileged sections of the population.

  Albert Einstein

  Party, People, Political

  Albert Einstein (2016). “The Albert Einstein Collection: Essays in Humanism, The Theory of Relativity, and The World As I See It”, p.11, Open Road Media

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• If it be asked what is to restrain the House of Representatives from making legal discriminations in favor of themselves and a particular class of the society? I answer, the genius of the whole system, the nature of just and constitutional laws, and above all the vigilant and manly spirit which actuates the people of America, a spirit which nourishes freedom, and in return is nourished by it. If this spirit shall ever be so far debased as to tolerate a law not obligatory on the Legislature as well as on the people, the people will be prepared to tolerate anything but liberty.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Law, Class, America

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (1842). “The Federalist, on the New Constitution, Written in the Year 1788”, p.265

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• Today more people lose their seats in the Politburo in Havana than in the Congress of America, ... We need to have competitive races for the Legislature. ... We have to have a clash of ideas.

  John McCain

  Race, Ideas, America

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• As the church watches from the sidelines, the ungodly elect atheists and homosexuals to school boards and legislatures to enact policies and laws that destroy our Christian children and discriminate against Christian families.

  Robert Simonds

  Christian, Atheist, Children

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• Utah is close to becoming the latest state to legalize medical marijuana.But one DEA agent raised the alarm in front of the Utah legislature. He warned them that rabbits might eat the weed. And then what would you have? You'd have a bunch of weed-crazed rabbits running around. They'd run rampant in the state's cornfields and taco orchards.

  Peter Sagal

  Running, Weed, Marijuana

  "Limericks". "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!" with Peter Sagal, www.npr.org. March 7, 2015.

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