We are a nation of laws and a nation of immigrants.
Bob Inglis

Permit me to issue and control the money of a nation, and I care not who makes its laws.
Mayer Amschel Rothschild

The laws were not made so much for the direction of good men, as to circumscribe the bad.
Samuel Richardson

Which goes to show you, you can make all the laws you want, but you cannot change people's ways. If you must change them, you have to understand that it will take a long time.
Miriam Makeba

For centuries we have been living in the society where not laws but people ruled, where there was no legal state.
Nursultan Nazarbayev

Our existing media system today is the direct result of government laws and subsidies that created it.
Robert McChesney

Once a nation parts with the control of its credit, it matters not who makes the laws.
William Lyon Mackenzie King

Many laws as certainly make bad men, as bad men make many laws.
Walter Savage Landor

Liberty is the right of doing whatever the laws permit.
Charles de Secondat

It is the function of the President, representing the executive principle, to execute the laws.
Garet Garrett

So I think that if we want to have a Congress, if we want to have government that looks like America, if we want to have government that is truly a representative Democracy, then we need to clearly address how we get our campaign laws out of the way of Democracy.
Carol Moseley Braun

We are a nation of immigrants, but we are also a nation of laws.
Elton Gallegly

When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty; because apprehensions may arise, lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner.
Charles de Secondat

The securities laws of the 1930s were so important because it forced companies to file registration statements and issue prospectuses, and it remedied the imbalance of information.
Ron Chernow

Thus the creation, which seems an arbitrary act, supposes laws as invariable as those of the fatality of the Atheists. It would be absurd to say that the Creator might govern the world without those rules, since without them it could not subsist.
Charles de Secondat

If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers.
George Savile

The most dangerous area where our laws are not being faithfully executed are the laws designed to protect Americans against the millions of aliens who enter our country illegally every year.
Phyllis Schlafly

I am not going to claim that modern anarchism has any direct relation to Roman jurisprudence; but I do claim that it has its basis in the laws of nature rather than in the state of nature.
Herbert Read

Law in general is human reason, inasmuch as it governs all the inhabitants of the earth: the political and civil laws of each nation ought to be only the particular cases in which human reason is applied.
Charles de Secondat

Our challenge for the future is that we realize we are very much a part of the earth's ecosystem, and we must learn to respect and live according to the basic biological laws of nature.
Jim Fowler