This collection holds 145 legislature quotes, drawn from writers, leaders, artists and thinkers across the QuoteForever archive. The most quoted voices here are George Jean Nathan, James E. Rogers, Jr. and James E. Rogers.

They are ordered so that each author has a say before anyone repeats, which means the first page gives you the range of the topic rather than one writer's back catalogue.

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Art is the sex of the imagination.

No state legislature ever built a great university.

No state legislature ever built a great university.

When legislature is corrupted, the people are undone.

Now and then an innocent man is sent to the legislature.

Remember, the Legislature is the joke, not our campaign.

I cannot subscribe to the omnipotence of a State legislature.

In the state legislature, I supported Second Amendment rights.

Lesson 1 from Spitzer: Don't alienate the legislature on Day 1.

Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.

A legislature cannot be effective while suffering from public scorn.

It is rare that a legislature reasons. It is too quickly impassioned.

No one should negotiate their dreams. Dreams must be free to fly high.

One hundred and seventy-three despots would surely be as oppressive as one.

The legislature are a little more difficult to educate than the governor is.

Washington would be much better off if it looked more like a state legislature.

I'm conscious of my race and ethnicity in the legislature - it's hard not to be.

Gabby Giffords was a mentor of mine in the state Legislature and also in Congress.

I'd like to see a revival of state legislatures, in which I am a true Jeffersonian.

Step by step, brick by brick, the edifice of India's legislature is being destroyed.

I have confidence in the responsibility of those who occupy a seat in the legislature.

The legislature's job is to write law. It's the executive branch's job to interpret law.

I served 14 years in the state legislature and served in both the minority and majority.

I believe in enforcing the laws as written by the Legislature, as signed by the governor.

Here in Nigeria, what makes the news is conflict between the executive and the legislature.

Public opinion is stronger than the legislature, and nearly as strong as the ten commandments.

I strongly believe that the Legislature should not be interfering in private medical decisions.

The people who talk about the middle class aren't upholding their interests in the legislature.

I am very grateful to the MLAs for unanimously electing me as the BJD legislature party leader.

But, you know, all I can do is submit my budget and then make the case to the Legislature to act.

The greatest single virtue of a strong legislature is not what it can do, but what it can prevent.

Safety on our highways has improved significantly, with the help of the Legislature and the media.

Democrats, folks, only have five states where they have the governorship and the state legislature.

Many attempts had been made by colonial legislatures to cut off or to tax the importation of slaves.

I was elected six times to represent southern Arizona, in the State Legislature and then in Congress.

I ... ran for Legislature [in 1832] ... and was beaten-the only time I have been beaten by the people.

But Connecticut and Rhode Island have originally realized the most perfect polity as to a legislature.

Starting in 2005, my first session in the legislature, my colleagues elected me to be Democratic whip.

Being the only Asian-American in the State Legislature, I've had no choice but to reach across the aisle.

Twice the Republicans in the California legislature tried to block my seating because of my trips to Hanoi.

You must remember that democracy is made up not only of the executive, but the legislature and the judiciary.

The most numerous objects of legislation belong to the States. Those of the National Legislature [are] but few.

One cannot tell the High Court what to adjudicate. They must judge, and then the legislature must act accordingly.

Independence of Judiciary means independence from Executive and Legislature, but not independence from accountability.

We're in the hands of the state legislature and God, but at the moment, the state legislature has more to say than God.

I filed the first gay rights bill in Massachusetts history in 1972 in the legislature, one of the first in the country.

I'm a former governor, and so I was the chief executive, and when the legislature wasn't in session, I was running the state.

Parliaments are in all cases to declare what is good for the whole; but it is not the declaration of parliament that makes it so.

Gov. Jeb Bush and the Florida Legislature's strong commitment to increase access to Advanced Placement courses continues to pay off.

The school-room sends men to the Legislature, to the bench, and the executive office. The bar-room sends them to the scaffold and hell.

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