It seems to me that any law that is not enforced and can't be enforced weakens all other laws.

It seems to me that any law that is not enforced and can’t be enforced weakens all other laws.

If you have laws that you don't enforce, then you don't have laws. This leads to lawlessness.

There are no good laws but such as repeal other laws.

When mores are sufficient, laws are unnecessary. When mores are insufficient, laws are unenforceable.

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

Attempts to enforce by legal sanctions, acts obnoxious to so great a proportion of Citizens, tend to enervate the laws in general, and to slacken the bands of Society. If it be difficult to execute any law which is not generally deemed necessary or salutary, what must be the case, where it is deemed invalid and dangerous? And what may be the effect of so striking an example of impotency in the Government, on its general authority?

Laws are confusing documents. They get in the way of justice.

When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken.

The more laws a society has, the less justice

Laws are for nothing if there is no mechanism to implement them.

A law without specifics and penalties is not worth the paper it is written on; when it is created as deception, it is far worse than no law.

Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.

Oh judge! Your damn laws! The good people don't need them, and the bad people don't obey them.