Legislature Quotes
A curated collection of the best quotes about Legislature.
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“Now and then an innocent man is sent to the legislature.”
“No man's life, liberty or property are safe while the Legislature is in session.”
“The commons, faithful to their system, remained in a wise and masterly inactivity.”
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“To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination.”
“Parliament will train you to talk; and above all things to hear, with patience, unlimited quantities of foolish talk.”
“All things are now possible because of your being able to participate in the politics and legislature of your country.”
“Bills were passed, not only for national objects but for individual cases, and laws were most numerous when the commonwealth was most corrupt.”
“I like the power given the Legislature to levy taxes, and for that reason solely approve of the greater house being chosen by the people directly.”
“Sleep is perverse as human nature, Sleep is perverse as a legislature, Sleep is as forward as hives or goiters, And where it is least desired, it loiters”
“I don't think you can make a lawyer honest by an act of legislature. You've got to work on his conscience. And his lack of conscience is what makes him a lawyer.”
“That a Parliament, especially a Parliament with Newspaper Reporters firmly established in it, is an entity which by its very nature cannot do work, but can do talk only.”
“The way to secure liberty is to place it in the people's hands, that is, to give them the power at all times to defend it in the legislature and in the courts of justice.”
“No one should negotiate their dreams. Dreams must be free to fly high. No government, no legislature, has a right to limit your dreams. You should never agree to surrender your dreams.”
“I served with General Washington in the Legislature of Virginia... and... with Dr. Franklin in Congress. I never heard either of them speak ten minutes at a time, nor to any but the main point.”