“I understand all too well that you can make legislation but you can't legislate how people feel toward one another.”

“It was all about hate. There should be laws. We're there laws? Can you legislate against hatred?”

“You can't legislate or litigate good, healthy behavior but we must be willing to educate people at an early age about the affects of unhealthy living.”

“I believe the most important benefit that I can confer on the country by my presidency is to insist upon the entire independence of the executive and legislative branches of the government, and compel the members of the legislative branch to see that they have responsibilities of their own, grave and well-defined, which their official oaths bind them sacredly to perform.”

“When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.”

“Further, an excess of legislation defeats its own ends. It makes the whole population criminals, and turns them all into police and police spies. The moral health of such a people is ruined for ever; only revolution can save it.”