One cannot legislate problems out of existence. It has been tried.
No organic law can ever be framed with a provision specifically applicable to every question which may occur in practical administration. .. No foresight can anticipate nor any document of reasonable length contain express provisions for all possible questions.
In order, in order to enforce you can't force people to act right toward each other. You can't force, you cannot legislate heart, conditions and attitudes.
One of the greatest delusions in the world is the hope that the evils in this world are to be cured by legislation.
You can't legislate intelligence and common sense into people.
Legislation has a certain jurisdiction. It can't change mindsets and hearts.
There are certain things that we can accomplish by law and there are certain things that we cannot accomplish by law or by any process of government. We cannot legislate intelligence. We cannot legislate morality. Nor can we legislate loyalty, for loyalty is a kind of morality.
You can’t fix the things that bother you the most by passing a law.
Let's not kid ourselves. Passing a [anti-discrimination] law does not mean an end to homophobia.
