Quotes

History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.

Faults of the head are punished in this world, those of the heart in another; but as most of our vices are compound, so also is their punishment.

There is a point at which even justice does injury.

We shall fight against them, throw them in prisons and destroy them.

The world itself is but a large prison, out of which some are daily led to execution.

Justice is that virtue of the soul which is distributive according to desert.

The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.

I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis upon the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement.

The severest justice may not always be the best policy.

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.

We're in a war. People who blast some pot on a casual basis are guilty of treason.

No obligation to justice does force a man to be cruel, or to use the sharpest sentence.

The worst prison is not of stone. It is of a throbbing heart, outraged by an infamous life.

The world is a prison in which solitary confinement is preferable.

The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison walls.

Laws do not persuade just because they threaten.

Do not lay on the multitude the blame that is due to a few.

One of the problems that the marijuana reform movement consistently faces is that everyone wants to talk about what marijuana does, but no one ever wants to look at what marijuana prohibition does. Marijuana never kicks down your door in the middle of the night. Marijuana never locks up sick and dying people, does not suppress medical research, does not peek in bedroom windows. Even if one takes every reefer madness allegation of the prohibitionists at face value, marijuana prohibition has done far more harm to far more people than marijuana ever could.

Society has used the juvenile courts to create a caste system where there are throw-away people.

If punishment reaches not the mind and makes not the will supple, it hardens the offender.

No crime has been without a precedent.

Why would anyone expect him to come out smarter? He went to prison for three years, not Princeton.

It is safer that a bad man should not be accused, than that he should be acquitted.

If you strike at, imprison, or kill us, out of our prisons or graves we will still evoke a spirit that will thwart you, and perhaps, raise a force that will destroy you! We defy you! Do your worst!

Care should be taken that the punishment does not exceed the guilt; and also that some men do not suffer for offenses for which others are not even indicted.