"Corruptissima republica plurimae leges."
 [The more corrupt the republic, the more numerous the laws.]
 - Publius Cornelius Tacitus ca. AD 69

"If you make ten thousand regulations,
 you destroy all respect for the law."
 - Winston Churchill

"Corruption is an evil inherent in every government not
 controlled by a watchful public opinion."
 - Ludwig von Mises