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From: CCPA Monitor
Date: 20071101
Author:Anonymous
"The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the state."
-Tacitus.
"If Nature had as many laws as the state, God himself could not reign over it."
-Ludwig Boerne.
"It is easier to make some things legal than to make them legitimate."
-Sébastien Chamfort.
"In the United States, thanks to Congress, there are forty million laws to enforce the Ten Commandments."
-Anatole France.
"The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread."
-Anatole France.
"The law is a system that protects everybody who can afford ...
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