The trouble today is that we have too many laws.
The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws.
We are way overstepping bounds as federal legislators.
We wonder why we have got the Freemen or the militants. We wonder why we have got unrest in this country. It is because our government, in fact, has got out of hand and out of line, with the Endangered Species Act.
I am further of opinion that it would be better for us to have [no laws] at all than to have them in so prodigious numbers as we have.
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.
The multiplication of laws undermines the rule of law.
We have the tendency of over-legislation regarding women.
We [the Senate] have the power to do any damn fool thing we want to do, and we seem to do it about every 10 minutes.
No government body is more notorious for over-legislation than the Department of Trade and Industry.
Over Legislation is not necessarily a virtue. It often leads to misuse of law.
We are staring down the Federal government gun barrel of a runaway Federal Congress—absolutely runaway.
If you laid all our laws end to end, there would be no end.
You can always depend on Congress to overreact.
