It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator is to create in men this benevolent disposition. Aristotle
Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime. John Ruskin
Moses was the greatest legislator and the commander in chief of perhaps the first liberation army. Elie Wiesel
I wish I had known more firsthand about the concerns and problems of American businesspeople while I was a U.S. senator and later a presidential nominee. That knowledge would have made me a better legislator and a more worthy aspirant to the White House. George McGovern
In a constitutional democracy the moral content of law must be given by the morality of the framer or legislator, never by the morality of the judge. Robert Bork
