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"The world is not going to be saved by legislation."
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"The world is not going to be saved by legislation."
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"Of the five House Calendars, the Private Calendar is the one to which all Private Bills are referred. Private Bills deal with specific individuals, corporations, institutions, and so forth, as distinguished from public bills which deal with classes only."
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"I'll sign anything except bad legislation."
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"Ideally citizens are to think of themselves as if they were legislators and ask themselves what statutes, supported by what reasons satisfying the criterion of reciprocity, they would think is most reasonable to enact."
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"Legislation can neither be wise nor just which seeks the welfare of a single interest at the expense and to the injury of many and varied interests."
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"Explosion of positive rights started in 1932 with the election of Roosevelt."
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"The touchstone of everything that can be concluded as a law for a people lies in the question whether the people could have imposed such a law on itself."
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"The legislator learns that when you talk a lot, you get in trouble. You have to listen a lot to make deals."
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"A system in which we may have an enforced rest from legislation for two years is not bad."
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"It was determined, as shown in the report of the Commission, which I can read to you, but I know you are familiar with the report. It states there was disagreement on this issue, particularly as the subject was debated, that there were different opinions about it."
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"Don't worry over what the newspapers say. I don't. Why should anyone else? I told the truth to the newspaper correspondents - but when you tell the truth to them they are at sea."
Truth
"As the Republican platforms says, the welfare of the farmer is vital to that of the whole country."
Nation
"Action for which I become responsible, or for which my administration becomes responsible, shall be within the law."
Action
"I am in favor of helping the prosperity of all countries because, when we are all prosperous, the trade with each becomes more valuable to the other."
Nation
"I think I might as well give up being a candidate. There are so many people in the country who don't like me."
People
"I love judges, and I love courts. They are my ideals, that typify on earth what we shall meet hereafter in heaven under a just God."
Love
"Failure to accord credit to anyone for what he may have done is a great weakness in any man."
Failure
"I do not believe in the divinity of Christ, and there are many other of the postulates of the orthodox creed to which I cannot subscribe."
Christian
"Socialism proposes no adequate substitute for the motive of enlightened selfishness that today is at the basis of all human labor and effort, enterprise and new activity."
Effort
"Enthusiasm for a cause sometimes warps judgment."
Enthusiasm
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