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• It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice, if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood
  if they be repealed or revised before they are promulgated, or undergo such incessane changes that no man who knows what the law is today can guess what it will be tomorrow....
• We should realize that a city is better off with bad law
  o long as they remain fixed, then with good laws that are constantly being altered, that the lack of learning combined with sound common sense is more helpful than the kind of cleverness that gets out of hand, and that as a general rule, states are better governed by the man in the street than by intellectuals....
• That truth cannot be material in any respect, is contrary to the nature of things.
  No tribunal, no codes, no systems can repeal or impair this law of God, for by his eternal laws it is inherent in the nature of things ....
• Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed, as they are in almost every kingdom in Europe.
  The supreme power in America cannot enforce unjust laws by the sword, because the people are armed, and constitute a force superior to any band of regular troops....
• The less people know about how sausages and laws are made, the better they'll sleep at night.
  -- Bismark's Law...
• Some of the most interesting documents from Sweden's middle ages are the old county laws (well, we never had counties but it's the nearest equivalent I can find for "landskap").
  These laws were written down sometime in the 13th century, but date back even down into Viking times....
• XXI: It's easy to get a loan unless you need it. XXII
  If stock market experts were so expert, they would be buying stock, not selling advice....
• There is one right, which man is generally thought to possess, which I am confident he neither does, nor can, posse
  a right to subsistence when his labour will not fairly purchase it....
• Extended Epstein-Heisenberg Principle In an R & D orbit, only 2 of the existing 3 parameters can be defined simultaneously.
  The parameters are: task, time and resources ($...