Legislature Quotes
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Legislature Quotes & Sayings
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Now and then an innocent man is sent to the legislature.
— Kin Hubbard
A law is not good merely because the legislature wills it, but the legislature has the mortal duty to will only that which is good.
— John Howard Griffin
Remember, the Legislature is the joke, not our campaign.
— Kinky Friedman
Democracy is also a single ideology, and, like all such templates, it has its limits. what works in a legislature might not work in a corporation
— Fareed Zakaria
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
Public opinion is stronger than the legislature, and nearly as strong as the ten commandments.
— Charles Dudley Warner
But Connecticut and Rhode Island have originally realized the most perfect polity as to a legislature.
— Ezra Stiles
To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination.
— George Jean Nathan
We need a constitutional amendment to allow the legislature to control the so-called free speech rights of corporations.
— Hank Johnson
No state legislature ever built a great university.
— James E. Rogers
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I ... ran for Legislature [in 1832] ... and was beaten-the only time I have been beaten by the people.
— Abraham Lincoln
Twice the Republicans in the California legislature tried to block my seating because of my trips to Hanoi.
— Tom Hayden
But, you know, all I can do is submit my budget and then make the case to the Legislature to act.
— George Pataki
One cannot enter a State legislature or a prison for felons without becoming, in some measure, a dubious character.
— H.L. Mencken
You can make money in a small way without politics. But to make big money, you need to buy the legislature. Can't be done otherwise.
— Edward Rutherfurd
I was elected six times to represent southern Arizona, in the State Legislature and then in Congress.
— Gabrielle Giffords
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
Beauty will not come at the call of the legislature ... It will come, as always, unannounced, and spring up between the feet of brave and earnest men.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
I was a member of the Florida legislature for nine years, the speaker of the house, majority leader, majority whip.
— Marco Rubio
Gov. Jeb Bush and the Florida Legislature's strong commitment to increase access to Advanced Placement courses continues to pay off.
— Gaston Caperton
The greatest single virtue of a strong legislature is not what it can do, but what it can prevent.
— J. William Fulbright
Members of the legislature, people who have run for office, know the connection between money and influence on what laws get passed
— Ruth Bader Ginsburg
The legislature's job is to write law. It's the executive branch's job to interpret law.
— George W. Bush
Neither the executive nor the legislature can act beyond the limits of the law.
— Justice Asok Kumar Ganguly
Being the only Asian-American in the State Legislature, I've had no choice but to reach across the aisle.
— Grace Meng
I filed the first gay rights bill in Massachusetts history in 1972 in the legislature, one of the first in the country.
— Barney Frank
Now is the time when men work quietly in the fields and women weep softly in the kitchen; the legislature is in session and no man's property is safe.
— Daniel Webster
Safety on our highways has improved significantly, with the help of the Legislature and the media.
— Jane D. Hull
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.
— Thomas Jefferson
It may pass for a maxim in State, that the administration cannot be placed in too few hands, nor the legislature in too many.
— Jonathan Swift
The most numerous objects of legislation belong to the States. Those of the National Legislature [are] but few.
— Rufus King
If Jehovah cannot support his religion without going into partnership with a State Legislature, I think he ought to give it up.
— Robert Green Ingersoll
It is rare that a legislature reasons. It is too quickly impassioned.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
I wish from my soul that the legislature of this State could see the policy of a gradual Abolition of Slavery.
— George Washington
The legislature have anxiously provided for those most useful and deserving body of men, the seamen and marines of this country.
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
Gabby Giffords was a mentor of mine in the state Legislature and also in Congress.
— Ann Kirkpatrick
No man's life, liberty or property are safe while the legislature is in session.
— Gideon John Tucker
As I've learned in my time in the state legislature, important legislation is always a work in progress.
— Marco Rubio
The school-room sends men to the Legislature, to the bench, and the executive office. The bar-room sends them to the scaffold and hell.
— Thomas Jordan Jarvis
I am aware that by many persons, it is considered in the nature of a joke to to become a candidate and to be elected as a member of the Legislature.
— Samuel Ealy Johnson Jr.