"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." ~ H.L. Mencken
Too Many Laws, Too Many Prisoners
Never in the civilized world have so many been locked up for so little.
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"The more corrupt the republic, the more numerous the laws." ~ Tacitus
According to this source (http://tinyurl.com/2b5n23c), the U.S. currently has over 5,000,000 so-called "laws" on the books, wonder if that would be considered "more numerous"? ;)
As President Ronald Reagan said, “I have wondered at times about what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the U.S. Congress.”