I am ashamed the law is such an ass.

A shame on such laws! a SHAME on such men.

Any law too often subject to infraction is bad; it is the duty of the legislator to repeal or change it.

To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt.

My country is a disgrace to me, but you are a disgrace to your country.

If you make 10,000 regulations you destroy all respect for the law.

Nothing is more damaging to a state, nothing so contrary to justice and law, nothing less appropriate to a civilized community, than to force through a measure by violence where a country has a settled and established constitution.

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

To be wealthy and honored in an unjust society is a disgrace.

It is a shame for anyone
to be well-known for righteousness.
It is a great disgrace to feel
distress at the injustice of
the turning of the wheels of fate.

The prestige of government has undoubtedly been lowered considerably by the Prohibition law. For nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced

Disgrace should be represented upside down, because all her deeds are contrary to God and tend to hell.

The present laws are deleterious to the moral sensibilities of both husband and wife. Woman has no inducement to prudence and industry, and she is obliged seemingly to acquiesce in the wishes of her husband, however repugnant to her, as the only means of obtaining, in even a small degree, her own; or she is allowed to follow her own plans and views as a favor, and not from the lack of power to compel her to do otherwise.

The laws the Irish use are detestable to God, and so contrary to all law that they ought not to be deemed law.