Legislation Limits Quotes

Against human nature one cannot legislate.

Legislation is powerless to eradicate racial instincts or to abolish distinctions based upon physical differences.

We have gone about as far as good will and even good legislation will take us.

we ask for too much salvation by legislation. All we need to do is empower individuals with the right philosophy and the right information to opt out en masse. (quoting Joel Salatin)

... legislating to regulate cultural change is like lassoing a locomotive with a cobweb.

You cannot make men good by law: and without good men you cannot have a good society.

This is not a prohibitive society. We're not going to tell people they can't smoke. We learned that we can't tell people they can't drink.

Reform must come from within and not from without. You cannot legislate for virtue.

We don't need a law against McDonald's or a law against slaughterhouse abuse - we ask for too much salvation by legislation. All we need to do is empower individuals with the right philosophy and the right information to opt out en masse.

There is no clear place to draw the line once you eliminate the traditional marriage, and it's the same once you start putting limits on what guns can be used, then it's just really easy to have laws that make them all illegal.

I believe that there are parts to human nature that cannot be reached by either legislation or education, but require the power of God to deal with.

It's a hard thing to legislate. You can't legislate good taste and you can't put a number on it in terms of square footage. It's a question of where individual rights end and community rights begin.