Crimes generally punish themselves.
Crimes generally punish themselves.
We have our own system, ... and
We have our own system, ... and journalists in our system are not put in prison for embarrassing the government by revealing things the government might not wish to have revealed. The important thing is that our system, under which journalists can write without fear or favor, should continue.
Federal prison, if you get any of it,
Federal prison, if you get any of it, you're going to have to do 85% of it. And the reason why I called it that is because I had a friend who got sent to the federal joint and his whole... it wasn't about him being in jail. He cried about the 85%.
Written laws are like spiders' webs, and
Written laws are like spiders' webs, and will, like them, only entangle and hold the poor and weak, while the rich and powerful will easily break through them.
Two men look out the same prison bars;
Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars.
Liberty is rendered even more precious
Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.
One of the many lessons that one learns
One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.
Overlook our deeds, since you know that
Overlook our deeds, since you know that crime was absent from our inclination.
Civilization is maintained by a very few
Civilization is maintained by a very few people in a small number of places and we need only some bombs and a few prisons to blot it out altogether.
To be at peace in crime! Ah, who can
To be at peace in crime! Ah, who can thus flatter himself.
The difference between tax avoidance and
The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison walls.
What is crime amongst the multitude, is
What is crime amongst the multitude, is only vice among the few.
Man is born free, and everywhere he is
Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
We're in a war. People who blast some
We're in a war. People who blast some pot on a casual basis are guilty of treason.
Adversities such as being homeless and
Adversities such as being homeless and going to prison has made many people stronger.
Justice renders to every one his due.
Justice renders to every one his due.
It is certain that the study of human
It is certain that the study of human psychology, if it were undertaken exclusively in prisons, would also lead to misrepresentation and absurd generalizations.
Kill a man, and you are an assassin.
Kill a man, and you are an assassin. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill everyone, and you are a God.
Concepts of justice must have hands and
Concepts of justice must have hands and feet to carry out justice in every case in the shortest possible time and the lowest possible cost. That is the challenge to every lawyer and judge in America.
Fast closed with double grills
Fast closed with double grills
And triple gates – the cell
To wicked souls is hell;
But to a mind that's innocent
'Tis only iron, wood and stone.
A sick person is a prisoner.
A sick person is a prisoner.
Corporal punishment falls far more
Corporal punishment falls far more heavily than most weighty pecuniary penalty.
One should respect public opinion
One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.
I existed in a world that never is - the
I existed in a world that never is - the prison of the mind.
I was put into jail as I was going to
I was put into jail as I was going to the shoemaker's to get a shoe which was mended. When I was let out the next morning, I proceeded to finish my errand, and, having put on my mended shoe, joined a huckleberry party, who were impatient to put themselves under my conduct; and in half an hour -- for the horse was soon tackled -- was in the midst of a huckleberry field, on one of our highest hills, two miles off, and then the State was nowhere to be seen.
