The more laws the more offenders. – Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia, 1732

The greater the number of laws and enactments, the more thieves and robbers there will be. – Lao-tzu

If the jury have no right to judge of the justice of a law of the government, they plainly can do nothing to protect the people against the oppressions of the government; for there are no oppressions which the government may not authorize by law. – Lysander Spooner, Trial by Jury