Ineffective Laws Quotes

The laws of most countries are far worse than the people who execute them, and many of them are only able to remain laws by being seldom or never carried into effect.

The tax code has been flawed and inefficient for a very long time, precisely because fixing it could be so terribly disruptive.

With Congress, every time they make a joke it's a law, and every time they make a law it's a joke.

You can't legislate against stupidity, but we try to do it all the time.

The statutes are never enforced, but legislators, who would be aghast at any enforcement effort, nevertheless often refuse to repeal them.

All laws which can be broken without any injury to another, are counted but a laughing-stock, and are so far from bridling the desires and lusts of men, that on the contrary they stimulate them.

Laws or ordinances unobserved, or partially attended to, had better never have been made.

Just as outlawing alcohol did not work in the 1920s, current attempts to prohibit online gambling will not work, either.

Draco wrote his laws in blood; the Senate writes its laws in wind.