America needs fewer laws, not more prisons.

If you have ten thousand regulations, you destroy all respect for the law.

The evidence is pretty conclusive that if organized groups have the opportunity to reap benefits for themselves at the expense of others, they will do so.

DIZERGA, GUS, Persuasion, Power and Polity, A Theory of Democratic Self-Organization, Introduction

[L]egal ambiguity remains a ruthless weapon for harassing the population.

[N]othing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.

There are not enough jails, not enough policemen, not enough courts to enforce a law not supported by the people.

Laws provide against injury from others; but not from ourselves.

Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.

Laws difficult to be executed cannot be generally good.

There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible to live without breaking laws.

It is a grave error to suppose that a dictatorship rules a nation by means of strict, rigid laws which are obeyed and enforced with rigorous, military precision. Such a rule would be evil, but almost bearable; men could endure the harshest edicts, provided these edicts were known, specific and stable; it is not the known that breaks men's spirits, but the unpredictable. A dictatorship has to be capricious; it has to rule by means of the unexpected, the incomprehensible, the wantonly irrational; it has to deal not in death, but in sudden death; a state of chronic uncertainty is what men are psychologically unable to bear.

The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws.