How dreadful it is when the right judge judges wrong.
Steal goods and you’ll go to prison, steal lands and you are a king.
When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff.
Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them.
The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.
Prisons don't rehabilitate, they don't punish, they don't protect, so what the hell do they do?
No obligation to justice does force a man to be cruel, or to use the sharpest sentence.
The severest justice may not always be the best policy.
I never saw a man who looked With such a wistful eye Upon that little tent of blue Which prisoners call the sky.
Well does Heaven have care that no man secures happiness by crime.
It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.
Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.
I know not whether laws be right, or whether laws be wrong; All that we know who lie in gaol is that the wall is strong; And that each day is like a year, a year whose days are long.
There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.
There is no peace because the making of peace is at least as costly as the making of war - at least as exigent, at least as disruptive, at least as liable to bring disgrace and prison and death in its wake.
Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.
In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business.
No man should be judge in his own case.
History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.
Nelson Mandela and Malcolm X came out of prison stronger.
There's no greater threat to our independence, to our cherished freedoms and personal liberties than the continual, relentless injection of these insidious poisons into our system. We must decide whether we cherish independence from drugs, without which there is no freedom.
A just chastisement may benefit a man, though it seldom does; but an unjust one changes all his blood to gall.
Virtue pardons the wicked, as the sandal-tree perfumes the axe which strikes it.
The public have more interest in the punishment of an injury than he who receives it.
