The trouble today is that we have too many laws.
Corruptisima republica plurimae leges.
The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government.
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.
The crying need today is not for more laws, but for fewer. The world must be saved from its saviors. If the friends of liberty and law could have only one slogan it should be: Stop the remedies!
We have too much legislation by clamor, tumult and pressure.
Law is death. The more of the law in a country, the worse for the country.
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.
What most surprises me about Brazil is the extent of the difficulties that we create for ourselves. We create a lot of legislation to control the Brazilian state itself, that this ends up meaning that things don't go with the speed any head of government would like.
A multitude of laws in a country is like a great number of physicians, a sign of weakness and malady.
Unnecessary laws are not good laws, but traps for money.
If we do not halt this steady process of building commissions and regulatory bodies and the special legislation like huge inverted pyramids over every one of the simple constitutional provisions, we shall soon be spending many billions of dollars more.
Wherever in any society there are too many laws, it is a sure sign that that society will soon die. If you study the characteristics of India, you will find that no nation possesses so many laws as the Hindus, and national death is the result.
