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When the [law making] and [law enforcement] powers are united in the same person... there can be no liberty. -- Baron de Montesquieu
If my wife made childhood obesity her mission and I signed a law making 1/8 cup of tomato paste a vegetable, I'd be sleeping on the sofa. -- Alton Brown
To retain respect for sausages and laws, one must not watch them in the making. -- Otto von Bismarck
What right does Congress have to go around making laws just because they deem it necessary? -- Marion Barry
Loyalty of the law-making power to the executive power was one of the dangers the political fathers foretold. -- Garet Garrett
The end game is you change that law to making that law better, whichever law you're talking about. -- Mike Lowry
You don't need lawyers making laws. Regular citizens can make laws. Let the lawyers work under the laws. -- Jesse Ventura
The knife of corruption endangered the life of New York City. The scalpel of the law is making us well again. -- Ed Koch
They say making laws is like making sausages. You shouldn't watch. It's the same for acting, especially for the actor who works unconsciously. -- Ed Asner
My business is the enforcement of the tax laws and the integrity of the tax code and making sure that trustees of charitable giving are true trustees. -- Chuck Grassley
My intention in making a comment about the importance of breastfeeding has nothing to do with the law. It comes from my passion and beliefs about children. -- Gisele Bundchen
When we were making the law, when we were writing the literature and the mathematics the grandfarthers of Blair and little Bush were scratching around in caves. -- Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
Any people attempting to govern themselves by laws of their own making, and by officers of their own appointment, are in direct rebellion against the kingdom of God. -- Orson Pratt
The growth of constitutional government, as we now understand it, was promoted by the establishment of two different sets of machinery for making laws and carrying on government. -- Albert Bushnell Hart
States should pass laws making it illegal to own or trade wild animals; the phony 'educational' permits that many private owners have used to skirt those laws should be eliminated. -- Susan Orlean
The laws only can determine the punishment of crimes, and the authority of making penal laws can only reside with the legislator, who represents the whole society united by the social compact. -- Cesare Beccaria
An adversarial family law system raises the stakes unnecessarily high, exacerbates the antagonism of the couples concerned, and is directly responsible for making it impossible for couples who would otherwise have reconciled to do so. -- Louis de Bernieres
You are not content with the vast millions of tribute we pay you annually under the operation of our revenue law, our navigation laws, your fishing bounties, and by making your people our manufacturers, our merchants, our shippers. -- John H. Reagan
Methamphetamine is a hideous drug. Meth makes a person become paranoid, violent, and aggressive - making them a serious threat to society and law enforcement. And maybe more importantly, meth users are a threat to their own children and families. -- Dirk Kempthorne
Congress has a legitimate interest in making sure that a practice that appears to reduce disease and healthcare costs remains available to parents. And, nothing in my bill prohibits statewide law ensuring that male circumcision occurs in a hygienic manner. -- Brad Sherman
Making an effort is polite, and getting ready and looking after yourself makes an event more fun. -- Jude Law
Mafiosa' was written by Veronica Russo. It's her first time making a film, and I'm really proud of her because this woman has a full-time job, and she decided one day, 'You know, I want to write a film, and I want to make it.' -- Katrina Law
Making it a valid law to learn by suffering. -- Aeschylus
The practice of law sharpens the mind by making it narrow. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
I'm anti-making new laws. I feel like assault is already against the law. -- Mary Katharine Ham
Culture itself is neither education nor law-making: it is an atmosphere and a heritage. -- H. L. Mencken
Most Americans want judges who will stick to interpreting the law rather than making it. -- Sam Brownback
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Marijuana grows naturally...Don't you think making nature against the law seems a bit, I don't know, unnatural? -- Bill Hicks
There is no healing a man till the law has wounded him, no making him alive till the law has slain him. -- Charles Spurgeon
Now, to consult the rules of composition before making a picture is a little like consulting the law of gravity before going for a walk. -- Edward Weston
There was a law in Connecticut - I believe it is still formally unrepealed - making it illegal for a man to kiss his wife on Sunday. -- Bertrand Russell
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That is, while we believe that cost-benefit analysis is an important tool to inform agency decision making, the results of the cost-benefit analysis do not trump existing law -- Fred Thompson
That is, while we believe that cost-benefit analysis is an important tool to inform agency decision making, the results of the cost-benefit analysis do not trump existing law. -- Fred Thompson
What can you say about a man, who on Mother's Day sends flowers to his mother-in-law, with a note thanking her for making him the happiest man on Earth? -- Nancy Reagan
... any men who would give up the law-making power to women in order to remedy existing evils, would surely be those most ready to enact the needful laws themselves. -- Catharine Beecher

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