John Godfrey Saxe Quote

Laws, like sausages, cease to inspire respect in proportion as we know how they are made.

Often misattributed to Otto von Bismarck in the form: Laws are like sausages. It's better not to see them being made.

As quoted in: University Chronicle. University of Michigan (27 March 1869)


Laws, like sausages, cease to inspire respect in proportion as we know how they are made.

Laws, like sausages, cease to inspire respect in proportion as we know how they are made.

Laws, like sausages, cease to inspire respect in proportion as we know how they are made.

Laws, like sausages, cease to inspire respect in proportion as we know how they are made.