Alfred Whitney Griswold Quotes

There is no major political issue in the country that does not end up as a legal issue.

Readiness to change from old law to new law enfeebles the power of the law.

Law cannot stand apart from the social changes around it.

Do you want to make a statement or do you want to make a law?

The general laws of the kingdom may be enacted only with the consent of the king and the nation. If the king proposes a law, the nation accepts or rejects it; if the nation demands a law, it is for the king to consent or to reject it

In Parliament we debate on and we decide the laws that are going to govern the country.

Every law is an infraction of liberty.

The world is not going to be saved by legislation.

I'm not an anarchist. I believe in government.

Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.

Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.

You do what you think is right and let the law catch up.

Moral change still depends on the individual and not on the passage of any law.

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

The country don’t need no legislation

Legislating is perceived as governing and governing is perceived as legislating. Legislation—conceiving it, proposing it, fighting over it, winning or losing, making the proper proclamation when passed or signed—not only is the main ‘action’ seen in Washington but is the key political currency in dealing with the voting public.... The President must necessarily consider legislative initiatives and actions as central to his own interest and his own leadership efforts.

People must live with the laws that we make.

His laws, whoso marks them well, are deep, and not vulgar; not made upon the spur of a particular occasion for the present, but out of providence of the future, to make the estate of his people still more and more happy; after the manner of the legislators in ancient and heroical times.

Every law is an evil for every law is an infraction of liberty.

It's harder to pass a law than stop one.

The main product of government is laws.

The trouble today is that we have too many laws.

We believe that a society in turmoil cannot be saved through mere legislation.

Laws and customs may be creative of vice; and should be therefore perpetually under process of observation and correction.

In the United States almost every political question becomes a legal question—or at least a question with legal dimensions.