Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.
Otto von Bismarck, Prussian statesman (1815-1898)

DeSantis SLAMS Congress, Wants Them To Be Audited By The IRS After Expansion

“My old man claimed that the more complicated the law the more opportunity for scoundrels.”
―Robert A. Heinlein

If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.
Louis D. Brandeis

Law has become a business. Health care has become a business. Unfortunately, politics has also become a business. That really undermines society. George Soros

"Laws are silent in times of war."
― Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC)

“One can only imagine how effective justice might be if admissible in a court of law.”
―Robert Brault

These IRS laws are so wrong , maybe even Hagel would be making argument against them....

"The laws of morality are not accidental, but are essentially Rational. It is the very object of the State that what is essential in the practical activity of men, and in their dispositions, should be duly recognized; that it should have a manifest existence, and maintain its position. It is the absolute interest of Reason that this moral Whole should exist; and herein lies the justification and merit of heroes who have founded states - however rude these may have been." ― Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

“When a father inquired about the best method of educating his son in ethical conduct, a Pythagorean replied: "Make him a citizen of a state with good laws” ― Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Philosophie Des Rechts

“Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.” ― Plato

“Judges... are picked out from the most dextrous lawyers, who are grown old or lazy, and having been biased all their lives against truth or equity, are under such a fatal necessity of favoring fraud, perjury and oppression, that I have known several of them to refuse a large bribe from the side where justice lay, rather than injure the faculty by doing any thing unbecoming their nature in office.”
― Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels

“It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before may legally be done again: and therefore they take special care to record all the decisions formerly made against common justice and the general reason of mankind. These, under the name of precedents, they produce as authorities, to justify the most iniquitous opinions; and the judges never fail of decreeing accordingly.”
― Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels

“Roman laws tended to be long and complex - one of Rome's most enduring legacies to the world is cumbersome and tortuous legal prose.”
― Adrian Goldsworthy, Caesar: Life Of A Colossus

“He who seeks to regulate everything by law is more likely to arouse vices than to reform them. It is best to grant what cannot be abolished, even though it be in itself harmful. How many evils spring from luxury, envy, avarice, drunkenness and the like, yet these are tolerated because they cannot be prevented by legal enactments.” ― Baruch Spinoza

“All laws which can be violated without doing any one any injury are laughed at. Nay, so far are they from doing anything to control the desires and passions of men that, on the contrary, they direct and incite men's thoughts the more toward those very objects, for we always strive toward what is forbidden and desire the things we are not allowed to have. And men of leisure are never deficient in the ingenuity needed to enable them to outwit laws framed to regulate things which cannot be entirely forbidden... He who tries to determine everything by law will foment crime rather than lessen it.” ― Baruch Spinoza

E.g. Age of prohibition.

A lawyer and a wagon-wheel must be well greased.
—German proverb

A good lawyer knows the law. A great lawyer knows the judge.

“The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced. - ”Frank Zappa

"The shark will be glad if the whole world is under water" - Chinese proverb

“No man should be above the law, and no man should be below it.”
― Theodore Roosevelt