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"The world is not going to be saved by legislation."
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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."
"Regardless of my legislation, spending has to be stopped."
"Explosion of positive rights started in 1932 with the election of Roosevelt."
"We passed important laws to give the authorities responsible for investigation wide powers to defend us."
"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."
"As a result of this article, I was invited to testify in the Senate Judiciary Committee on privacy law."
"The legislator learns that when you talk a lot, you get in trouble. You have to listen a lot to make deals."
"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."
"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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"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."
"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."
"I'll be damned if I am not getting tired of this. It seems to be the profession of a President simply to hear other people talk."
"I do not know much about politics, but I am trying to do the best I can with this administration until the time shall come for me to turn it over to somebody else."
"As the Republican platforms says, the welfare of the farmer is vital to that of the whole country."
"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."
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