Shana Alexander Quotes

No Parties…will be allowed to live together as husband and wife until their marriage has been legally solemnized.

Marriage has historically been in the domain of the States to regulate.

Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.

In terms of the legal matter of creating a contract between two people that's called marriage, and allowing them to live together with the protection of law, it seems to me is the way we should be moving in this country.

In my opinion, nothing changes after you get married. If ain't broke, don't fix it.

Americans value marriage. Washington taxes marriage.

The Indian having taken to himself a wife should be compelled to continue that relation with her, unless dissolved by some recognized tribunal.

In our country, you need to be married to be eligible for many things, and to have a right on your partner's life.

Marriage is like a formality for me.

The institution of marriage, if you look at it over many centuries, has come and gone.

That's what they do in Europe. You go down to the city hall and you become legally connected. You have a civil union there. Then, if you're religious, you go down to the church, and the church blesses the union. That gets the problem solved.

If we repealed all the laws of the world marriage would still exist.

The husband and wife are one, and that one is the husband.

Woman, or more precisely put, perhaps, marriage, is the representative of life with which you are meant to come to terms.

If any difference should be made by law between husband and wife, reason, justice and humanity, if their voices were heard, would dictate that it should be in her favor.

Whatever their relative valuation of the single and married states, most societies in history made sharp distinctions between those who married and those who remained single: They were seen as mutually exclusive ways of life, with different legal rights and social obligations.

Gay and lesbian people have families, and their families should have legal protection, whether by marriage or civil union.

Marriage is a unique cultural relationship that has a long-standing tradition and societal meaning, which should not be redefined by the courts.

I don't believe that a piece of paper can decide your relationship status.

Marriage is anti-romantic - husband and wife are terms like 'turkey' and 'goose.' Worse, they denote ownership.

Gay and lesbian couples should have the right to experience the joys of marriage and family.

Marriage is the only actual bondage known to our law. There remain no legal slaves, except the mistress of every house.

The principal House sponsor (of the Defense of Marriage Act), Bob Barr of Georgia has been married three times--which raises the question of why the act doesn't contain a three-strikes-and-you're-out provision.

Marriage has always been a state and local issue.

Being married is different than not being married, and anybody who tells you that it's the same is lying.