“The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.”

“The United States is a nation of laws, badly written and randomly enforced.”

“Law enforcement: a case of good men doing bad chores.”

“It requires but a very small glance of thought to perceive, that although laws made in one generation often continue in force through succeeding generations, yet that they continue to derive their force from the consent of the living. A law not repealed continues in force, not because it cannot be repealed, but because it is not repealed; and the non repealing passes for consent.”

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

“Let me not be understood as saying that there are no bad laws, nor that grievances may not arise for the redress of which no legal provisions have been made. I mean to say no such thing. But I do mean to say that although bad laws, if they exist, should be repealed as soon as possible, still, while they continue in force, for the sake of example they should be religiously observed.”