Ann Robinson Quotes

A nation is formed by the willingness of each of us to share in the responsibility for upholding the common good.

When the good lord calls you home, the government ought not come get your home.

Common sense often makes good law.

In a polling conducted by the Wall Street Journal, 11 out of 12 Americans said they oppose the taking of private property, even if it is for public economic good.

The hard thing is getting people to come to the theater to see something, no matter if it's good or not.

You can't legislate good will - that comes through education.

Ideally citizens are to think of themselves as if they were legislators and ask themselves what statutes, supported by what reasons satisfying the criterion of reciprocity, they would think is most reasonable to enact.

The balance of private good and general welfare is at the bottom of civilized morals; but the morals of the Heroic Age are founded on individuality, and on nothing else.

Law is nothing other than a certain ordinance of reason for the common good, promulgated by the person who has the care of the community.

There is a fine line between censorship and good taste and moral responsibility.

Good laws make it easier to do right and harder to do wrong.

Some people argue that we should limit choice in favour of good local services. My response is simple: why should we assume those two concepts are mutually exclusive?

No law can possibly meet the convenience of every one: we must be satisfied if it be beneficial on the whole and to the majority.

While I believe our Constitution allows for State and local governments to execute the power of eminent domain for those purposes that specifically serve the public good, condemning property solely to implement economic development plans is not serving the public good.

Both free speech rights and property rights belong legally to individuals, but their real function is social, to benefit vast numbers of people who do not themselves exercise these rights.

The idea is that the state doesn't have rights to limit individuals' wants and passions. I disagree with that. I think we absolutely have rights because there are consequences to letting people live out whatever wants or passions they desire.

Lobbying is not a bad thing. I'm not trying to say that we shouldn't have lobbyists or we shouldn't have lobbying to petition our government. It's in the Constitution, and it's something that should be honorable and good.

If you live in a place that you perceive to be a crowded place, you appreciate government; you see it as this thing that protects you against crime, that keeps order, that makes sure that nobody puts a massage parlor next to your house, that keeps other people's dogs from pooping on the sidewalk.

You can't legislate good taste.

For me, democracy must deliver a better life for the people.

Every man holds his property subject to the general right of the community to regulate its use to whatever degree the public welfare may require it.

Moral principles of liberty that endow a person with the right to claim and acquire property at the same time oblige that person to respect every other person’s equal right to do the same.

As individual life has more and more given place to crowded community life, the rights and privileges once deemed essential to the perfect liberty of the individual are often found to stand in the way of the public welfare, and to breed wrong and injustice to the community at large.

A country is not a business and a government should stand for much more than economic efficiency.

The right to private property is inconceivable without responsibilities to the common good.