 | Cuyler Reynolds - 1902 - 504 pàgines
...should 'scape whipping ? Hamlet. ii, 2. Lawyers' gowns are lined with the wilfulness of their clients. When the state is most corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied. TACITUS. If you pity a rogue you are no great friend of honest men. ANON. To judge wisely I suppose... | |
 | 1902 - 496 pàgines
...Relating to Contagious Ophthalmia: We are indebted to the Roman historian, Tacitus, for the statement that "when the state is most corrupt then the laws are most multiplied." Whatever may have been the exact meaning of this remark, if we are able to judge of the moral status... | |
 | Illinois State Bar Association - 1903 - 1024 pàgines
...adopted by Blackstone; the Chinese have extended it to including rewards for virtue. Tacitus said: "When the state is most corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied." Illinois, like other modern states, has an excessive multiplicity of general laws. Many old forms of... | |
 | Alfred Maurice Low - 1911 - 630 pàgines
...law without incurring the risk of punishment. The American people have been corrupted by their laws. When the state is most corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied, says Tacitus. A fine sense of commercial honesty — for it is in trade operations that the baneful... | |
 | Maryland State Bar Association, Maryland State Bar Association. Meeting - 1903 - 410 pàgines
...days, as against 656 Acts by the 128 members of the two Maryland houses in 90 days. Tacitus says : "When the State is most corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied." The statistics for the 42 states whose legislatures met between October 1st, 1902, and October 1st, 1903,... | |
 | Richard Alan Krieger - 2007 - 344 pàgines
...greater the number of laws, the greater the number of offenses against them." — Henry Havelock Ellis "When the state is most corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied." — Tacitus "A multitude of laws in a country is like a great number of physicians, a sign of weakness... | |
 | C. Wayne Owens - 2006 - 137 pàgines
...of laws in a country is like a great number of physicians, a sign of weakness and malady." -Voltaire "When the state is most corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied." -Tacitus "Law never does anything constructive. We have had enough of legislators promising to do that... | |
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When the state is most corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied." — The relaxed morals of a people may be estimated in some degree from the legal restraints which it is found necessary to impose. 
