A state is better governed which has few laws, and those laws strictly observed.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Decency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is most strictly observed.
When the state is most corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied.
It is unfortunately none too well understood that, just as the State has no money of its own, so it has no power of its own.
Laws are subordinate to custom.
The state is nothing but an instrument of opression of one class by another - no less so in a democratic republic than in a monarchy.
Therefore, states are equal in natural rights.
A law is a law, and it has to be respected.
The state and its elites must be subject, in theory and in practice, to the same laws that its poorest citizens are.
Powerful states can maintain themselves only by crime, little states are virtuous only by weakness.
A law is not a law without coercion behind it.