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«The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation»
Author: Jeremy Bentham
(Activist, Philosopher)
| About:
Ethics,
Happiness
| Keywords:
legislation, morals, The Foundation
«The world is not going to be saved by legislation.»
«Prohibition goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation and makes crimes out of things that are not crimes.»
Author: Abraham Lincoln
(President)
| Keywords:
appetite, beyond control, Beyond Reason, bounds, crimes, in that, legislation, prohibition, prohibitions
«You do not examine legislation in the light of the benefits it will convey if properly administered, but in the light of the wrongs it would do and the harms it would cause if improperly administered.»
Author: Lyndon B. Johnson
(President)
| Keywords:
administered, benefits, convey, examine, harms, improperly, legislation, properly, wrongs
«The wise know that foolish legislation is a rope of sand, which perishes in the twisting.»
«The Government does not intend these things to happen, the Commission on whose report the Bill was founded did not intend these things to happen, but in legislation intention is nothing, and the letter of the law everything, and no government has the»
Author: William Butler Yeats
(Dramatist, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Government
| Keywords:
commission, Commission on, legislation, Letter of, The Letter
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