Date: 1883
What a deal of time, trouble, expense, and misery would have been saved to mankind if our legislators had considered more what they were legislating about, those for whom they were legislating, and the effect upon society of their work !  Laws are too apt to be regarded as if intended to supply an income for lawyers, to keep in existence a complicated mass of law courts and legal machinery .  Instead of adding to our laws, the greatest boon to mankind would be for a committee to examine every existing law and cancel all those that are obsolete, or impede the progress, or are detrimental to the interests and freedom, of the individual.