Best Legislators Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: Equitable commerce: a new development of principles as substitutes for laws and governments, for the harmonious adjustment and regulation of the pecuniary, intellectual, and moral intercourse of mankind, proposed as elements of new society

“Those who have heard or read anything from me on the subject, know that one of the principal points insisted on is, the forming of societies or any other artificial combinations IS the first, greatest, and most fatal mistake ever committed by legislators and by reformers.”

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Author:Josiah Warren

“There's no conscious plan here; my whole life in politics as a state legislator and in Congress has been about strengthening the middle class.”

Has Beens States Whole Class Plans Middle Conscious Congress Whole Life Middle Class Legislators Strengthening

Author:Peter Welch

“I've been called the first Asian legislator in our Nevada State Assembly.”

Firsts States Asian Assembly Legislators Nevada

Author:Sharron Angle

“So that’s what we want is a secure and sovereign nation and, you know, I don’t know that all of you are Latino. Some of you look a little more Asian to me. I don’t know that. What we know, what we know about ourselves is that we are a melting pot in this country. My grandchildren are evidence of that. I’m evidence of that. I’ve been called the first Asian legislator in our Nevada State Assembly.”

“Treason is when legislators vote against homeland security measures because it goes against the wishes of their political or financial backers. Treason is the fact that, as a terrorist, you could still buy a gun in this country because the NRA lobby is so strong.”

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Author:Bill Maher

“I would appoint judges that interpreted the Constitution rather than invented it, understood the difference between being a judge and being a legislator.”

Differences Judging Understood Constitution Legislators

Author:Rudy Giuliani

“It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator is to create in men this benevolent disposition.”

Men Should Use Common Special Property Disposition Benevolence Benevolent Legislators

Book:Politics

Source: Politics

“We ought to be very cautious in the prosecution of magic and heresy. The attempt to put down these two crimes may be extremely perilous to liberty, and may be the origin of a number of petty acts of tyranny if the legislator be not on his guard; for as such an accusation does not bear directly on the overt acts of a citizen, but refers to the idea we entertain of his character.”

“Nothing is more common than to find men, whose works are now totally neglected, mentioned with praises by their contemporaries as the oracles of their age, and the legislators of science.”

Men Age Common Praise Find Me Neglected Legislators Oracles

Book:The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: With an Essay on His Life and Genius /c by Arthur Murphy, Esq

Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: With an Essay on His Life and Genius /c by Arthur Murphy, Esq

“In all forms of government the people is the true legislator.”

People Government Form Forms Of Government Legislators

Author:Edmund Burke

“Those public employee union bosses think they already control the legislators, they already control everyone up there in Sacramento, and now, because they have the money, they want to control all of you, .. They want to raise your taxes. It's all going in that direction -- raising your taxes. But I'm here as your warrior, remember that. I want to protect you.”

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Author:Arnold Schwarzenegger

“A super-legislator body is not what the court was intended to be, When I ponder our country and its greatness, its weakness, its potential, my heart aches for less divisiveness, less polarization, less finger-pointing, less bitterness, less mindless partisanship.”

“A legislator must know how to take advantage of even the defects of those he wants to govern. The art consists in making others work rather than in wearing oneself out.”

Knows Want Art Politics Power Know How Advantage Oneself Defects Legislators

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“You have the biggest impact on controlling, on affecting local lives as mayor. It's so much more important than being a state legislator.”

Important States Impact Locals Mayors Legislators

Author:Dick Murphy

“But there is merit even in the mentally retarded legislator. He asks the questions that everyone is afraid to ask for fear of seeming simple.”

Asks Simple Merit Seeming Legislators Retarded Mentally Retarded

Author:John Kenneth Galbraith

“You cannot have man legislating and playing God in Parliament, and at the same time believe that Allah is the only legislator.”

Men Believe Parliament Legislators Playing God

Author:Anjem Choudary

“The idea of hereditary legislators is as inconsistent as that of hereditary judges, or hereditary juries; and as absurd as an hereditary mathematician, or an hereditary wise man; and as ridiculous as an hereditary poet-laureat.”

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Author:Thomas Paine

“[The poet] must write as the interpreter of nature and the legislator of mankind, and consider himself as presiding over the thoughts and manners of future generations, as a being superior to time and place.”

Writing Generations Mankind Poet Superiors Manners Future Generation Legislators Interpreter

Author:Samuel Johnson

“The legislator should keep two things constantly before his eyes: 1. The pure theory developed to its minutest details; 2. The particular condition of actual things which he designs to reform.”

Should Two Eye Conditions Design Particular Theory Pure Details Reform His Eyes Two Things Legislators

Author:Wilhelm von Humboldt

“When a social movement adopts the compromises of legislators, it has forgotten its role, which is to push and challenge the politicians, not fall in meekly behind them. We who protest...are not politicians. We are citizens. Whatever politicians may do, let them first feel the full force of citizens who speak for what is right, not for what is winnable, in a shamefully timorous Congress.”

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Author:Howard Zinn

“For all laws are general judgements, or sentences of the legislator; as also every particular judgement is a law to him whose case is judged.”

Law Cases Particular Sentences Judgement Judged Legislators

Book:Leviathan, Parts I and II

Source: Leviathan, Parts I and II

“That no man, or set of men, are entitled to exclusive or separate emoluments or privileges from the community, but in consideration of public services; which, not being descendible, neither ought the offices of magistrate, legislator, or judge to be hereditary.”

Men Community Judging Ought Office Privilege Consideration Entitled Exclusive Public Service Legislators Hereditary Magistrates

Author:George Mason

“Ideal legislators do not vote their interests.”

Interest Ideals Vote Legislators

Book:A Theory of Justice

Source: A Theory of Justice

“It is time that we labored for the happiness of the people. Legislators who are to bring light and order into the world must pursue their course with inexorable tread, fearless and unswerving as the sun.”

People World Light Order Courses Sun Pursue Fearless Legislators Inexorable

Author:Louis Antoine de Saint-Just

“The legislator commands the future; to be feeble will avail him nothing: it is for him to will what is good and to perpetuate it; to make man what he desires to be: for the laws, working upon the social body, which is inert in itself, can produce either virtue or crime, civilized customs or savagery.”

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Author:Louis Antoine de Saint-Just

“It is the lawyers who run our civilization for us -- our governments, our business, our private lives. Most legislators are lawyers; they make our laws. Most presidents, governors, commissioners, along with their advisers and brain-trusters are lawyers; they administer our laws. All the judges are lawyers; they interpret and enforce our laws. There is no separation of powers where the lawyers are concerned. There is only a concentration of all government power -- in the lawyers.”

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Author:Fred Rodell

“From dwarf tossing to drug taking: The legislator has no place in voluntary exchanges between consenting adults, as dodgy and as dangerous as these might be.”

Might Dangerous Drug Adults Legislators Dwarfs Dwarves Drug Taking

Author:Ilana Mercer

“I am conscious that an equal division of property is impracticable, but the consequences of this enormous inequality producing so much misery to the bulk of mankind, legislators cannot invent too many devices for subdividing property.”

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Book:The Essential Jefferson

Source: The Essential Jefferson

“The legislator learns that when you talk a lot, you get in trouble. You have to listen a lot to make deals.”

Literature Deals Trouble Legislators

Author:Bob Woodward

“I will choose what enters me, what becomes flesh of my flesh. Without choice, no politics, no ethics lives. I am not your cornfield, not your uranium mine, not your calf for fattening, not your cow for milking. You may not use me as your factory. Priests and legislators do not hold shares in my womb or my mind. If I give it to you, I want it back. My life is a non-negotiable demand.”

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Author:Marge Piercy

“Custom is the law of one description of fools, and fashion of another; but the two parties often clash--for precedent is the legislator of the first, and novelty of the last. Custom, therefore, looks to things that are past, and fashion to things that are present.”

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Book:Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think

Source: Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think

“Whatever is worthy to be loved for anything is worthy of preservation. A wise and dispassionate legislator, if any such should ever arise among men, will not condemn to death him who has done or is likely to do more service than injury to society. Blocks and gibbets are the nearest objects with legislators, and their business is never with hopes or with virtues.”

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Book:Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen: Richard I and the Abbot of Boxley. The Lord Brooke and Sir Philip Sidney. King Henry IV and Sir Arnold Savage. Southey and Porson. Oliver Cromwel and Walter Noble. Aeschines and Phocion. Queen Elizabeth and Cecil. King James I and Isaac Casaubon. Marchese Pallavicini and Walter Landor. General Kleber and some French officers. Bonaparte and the president of the senate. Bishop Burnet and Humphrey Hardcastle. Peter Leopold and the President Du

Source: Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen: Richard I and the Abbot of Boxley. The Lord Brooke and Sir Philip Sidney. King Henry IV and Sir Arnold Savage. Southey and Porson. Oliver Cromwel and Walter Noble. Aeschines and Phocion. Queen Elizabeth and Cecil. King James I and Isaac Casaubon. Marchese Pallavicini and Walter Landor. General Kleber and some French officers. Bonaparte and the president of the senate. Bishop Burnet and Humphrey Hardcastle. Peter Leopold and the President Du

“In the middle-class United States, a veneer of "alternative lifestyles" disguises the reality that, here as everywhere, women's apparent "choices" whether or not to have children are still dependent on the far from neutral will of male legislators, jurists, a male medical and pharmaceutical profession, well-financed lobbies, including the prelates of the Catholic Church, and the political reality that women do not as yet have self-determination over our bodies and still live mostly in ignorance of our authentic physicality, our possible choices, our eroticism itself.”