When the state is most corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied.
Corruptisima republica plurimae leges.
Where there are the most laws, there is the most injustice. Summum jus, summa injuria.
The injustice of a government is proportional to the number of its laws.
Englishmen are said to love their laws; - that is the reason, I suppose, they give us so many of them, and in different editions.
Formerly we suffered from crimes; now we suffer from laws.
A society deadened by a smothering network of laws while finding release in moral chaos is not likely to be either happy or stable.
Overcriminalization has become a national plague.
No government body is more notorious for over-legislation than the Department of Trade and Industry.
The United States has so many laws, into the millions, that experts have lost track of just how many laws we have.
If you laid all our laws end to end, there would be no end.
