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

You may try to destroy all the wealth and find that all you have done is increase poverty.

Without a measureless and perpetual uncertainty, the drama of human life would be destroyed

It wouldn’t make much sense to increase the penalty for bigamy. A bigamist has two mothers-in-law, and that’s punishment enough.

To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.

The power of the executive to cast a man into prison, ... without formulating any charge known to the law, and particularly to deny him the judgment of his peers, is in the highest degree odious, and the foundation of all totalitarian government whether Nazi or Communist.