In the absence of sound oversight, responsible businesses are forced to compete against unscrupulous and underhanded businesses, who are unencumbered by any restrictions on activities that might harm the environment, or take advantage of middle-class families, or threaten to bring down the entire financial system.
Barack ObamaThe sovereign is called a tyrant who knows no laws but his caprice.
VoltaireGood men must not obey the laws too well.
Ralph Waldo EmersonIf you believe in science, like I do, you believe that there are certain laws that are always obeyed.
Stephen HawkingThere are certain age limits on police officers. They’d have retired me out at 65.
Clint EastwoodLike Cato, give his little senate laws, and sit attentive to his own applause.
Alexander PopeEvery Republican’s voted for it. Look at what they value and look at their budget and what they’re proposing. Romney wants to let the – he said in the first 100 days he’s going to let the big banks once again write their own rules – unchain Wall Street. They’re gonna put y’all back in chains.
Joe BidenEvery actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well.
Ralph Waldo EmersonWe shouldn’t have to be burdened with all the technicalities that come up from time to time with shrewd, smart lawyers interpreting what the laws or what the Constitution may or may not say.
Dan QuayleTo know the laws is not to memorize their letter but to grasp their full force and meaning.
Marcus Tullius CiceroI hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.
Thomas JeffersonI do have a political agenda. It’s to have as few regulations as possible.
Dan QuayleAs president, Reagan worked very well with Democrats to do big things. It is true that he worked to reduce the size of government and cut federal taxes and he eliminated many regulations, but he also raised taxes when necessary.
Arnold SchwarzeneggerIf you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.
Winston ChurchillWhen Ford sells a car, a dealer isn’t allowed to take out the engine and put a different one in. When a newsstand sells the Washington Post, no one can go to the newsstand and pay them to rip out the classified section and put their own classified section in – if they could, they would do so.
Bill GatesGood people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.
PlatoLaws, like houses, lean on one another.
Edmund BurkeIf burning fossil fuels was so bad that it threatened our very existence, how could we just continue like before? Why were there no restrictions? Why wasn’t it made illegal? To me, that did not add up.
Greta ThunbergThe rules are there for a reason.
Abby Lee MillerTyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them.
VoltaireEveryone assumes I practise all of my own laws but I don’t. I think anybody who did would be a horrible ugly person to be around.
Robert GreeneLaws are silent in time of war.
Marcus Tullius CiceroIn time of war the laws are silent.
Marcus Tullius CiceroOne of the peculiarities of Delhi is that the term ‚reform‘ is associated only with passing of laws in Parliament. In fact, the most important reforms are those needed, without new laws, at various level of the government, in work practices and procedures.
Narendra ModiLaws made by common consent must not be trampled on by individuals.
George WashingtonI think members of the legislature, people who have to run for office, know the connection between money and influence on what laws get passed.
Ruth Bader GinsburgThe more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be.
Lao TzuPeople crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous.
Edmund BurkeThe magistrates are the ministers for the laws, the judges their interpreters, the rest of us are servants of the law, that we all may be free.
Marcus Tullius CiceroIt is necessary for him who lays out a state and arranges laws for it to presuppose that all men are evil and that they are always going to act according to the wickedness of their spirits whenever they have free scope.
Niccolo MachiavelliI have no doubt but that the misery of the lower classes will be found to abate whenever the Government assumes a freer aspect and the laws favor a subdivision of Property.
James MadisonEach piece, or part, of the whole of nature is always merely an approximation to the complete truth, or the complete truth so far as we know it. In fact, everything we know is only some kind of approximation because we know that we do not know all the laws as yet.
Richard P. FeynmanWhat we need to understand is that when traditions become laws, rules, obligations and expectations others put on us that we don’t want to fulfill, then they lose real meaning and steal the joy from our lives. And if we’re too religious, we won’t be able to be led by the Holy Spirit and enjoy an intimate relationship with Him.
Joyce MeyerThe United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced.
Frank ZappaGravity must be caused by an Agent acting constantly according to certain laws, but whether this Agent be material or immaterial I have left to the consideration of my readers.
Isaac NewtonWall Street apparently takes and then forgets, and then comes after the guns of law-abiding American citizens and small businesses.
John KennedyLaws control the lesser man… Right conduct controls the greater one.
Mark TwainOver time, yes, countries will need to look at specific GMO products like they look at drugs today, where they don’t approve them all. They look hard at the safety and the testing. And they make sure that the benefits far outweigh any of the downsides.
Bill GatesImmigration laws are the only laws that are discussed in terms of how to help people who break them.
Thomas SowellWherever there is a settled society, religion is necessary; the laws cover manifest crimes, and religion covers secret crimes.
VoltaireDoing nothing while the middle class is hurting. That’s not leadership. Loose regulations and lax enforcement. That’s not leadership. That’s abandoning our middle class.
Kamala HarrisEven when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.
AristotleObama has no way to conceal that Osama was executed in front of his children and wives, who are now under the custody of the authorities of Pakistan, a Muslim country of almost 200 million inhabitants, whose laws have been violated, its national dignity offended, and its religious traditions desecrated.
Fidel CastroLaws should be interpreted in a liberal sense so that their intention may be preserved.
Marcus Tullius CiceroNature is the source of all true knowledge. She has her own logic, her own laws, she has no effect without cause nor invention without necessity.
Leonardo da VinciWhere there is a free government, and the people make their own laws by their representatives, I see no injustice in their obliging one another to take their own paper money.
Benjamin FranklinI think there should be regulations on social media to the degree that it negatively affects the public good.
Elon MuskWith the exception of gravitation and radioactivity, all of the phenomena known to physicists and chemists in 1911 have their ultimate explanation in the laws of quantum electrodynamics.
Richard P. Feynman