Bad Laws Quotes

Many laws as certainly make bad men, as bad men make many laws.

Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.

If you want to reduce nuclear weapons, get rid of bad judges, eliminate stupid laws…, you have my number.

I know of no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent execution

The best use of laws is to teach men to trample bad laws under their feet.

It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.

When I so pressingly urge a strict observance of all the laws, let me not be understood as saying there are no bad laws, nor that grievances may not arise, for the redress of which, no legal provisions have been made. I mean to say no such thing. But I do mean to say, that, although bad laws, if they exist, should be repealed as soon as possible, still while they continue in force, for the sake of example, they should be religiously observed.

The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.

Those who advocate that bad laws should not be obeyed—in circumstances where such "bad" laws are enacted by a democratically elected government—are putting at risk the entire conception of civilized society. That directly challenges democracy...the way to change bad laws is to change the government that has made them

Bad facts make bad law, and people who write bad laws are in my opinion more dangerous than songwriters who celebrate sexuality.

It may be said that the power of preventing bad laws includes that of preventing good ones; and may be used to the one purpose as well as to the other. But this objection will have little weight with those who can properly estimate the mischiefs of that inconstancy and mutability in the laws, which form the greatest blemish in the character and genius of our governments.

Unnecessary laws are not good laws, but traps for money.

It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin it by bad laws.

Bad facts make bad law, and people who write bad laws are in my opinion more dangerous than songwriters who celebrate sexuality. Freedom of speech, freedom of religious thought, and the right to due process for composers, performers and retailers are imperiled if the PMRC and the major labels consummate this nasty bargain.