We shall not yield to violence. We shall
We shall not yield to violence. We shall not be deprived of union freedoms. We shall never agree with sending people to prison for their convictions.
If you share the crime of your friend,
If you share the crime of your friend, you make it your own.
Clemency alone makes us equal to the
Clemency alone makes us equal to the gods.
The law does not pretend to punish
The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.
I don't like being famous - it is like a
I don't like being famous - it is like a prison. And driving for Ferrari would make it far worse.
Experts and the educated elite have
Experts and the educated elite have replaced what worked with what sounded good. Society was far more civilized before they took over our schools, prisons, welfare programs, police departments and courts. It's high time we ran these people out of our lives and went back to common sense.
How dreadful it is when the right judge
How dreadful it is when the right judge judges wrong.
In prisons, those things withheld from
In prisons, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all.
And while God had work for Paul, he
And while God had work for Paul, he found him friends both in court and prison. Let persecutors send saints to prison, God can provide a keeper for their turn.
It is hard, but it is excellent, to find
It is hard, but it is excellent, to find the right knowledge of when correction is necessary and when grace doth most avail.
Man is born free, and everywhere he is
Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
Assassination is the extreme form of
Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.
A variety in punishment is of utility,
A variety in punishment is of utility, as well as a proportion.
Pardon is the virtue of victory.
Pardon is the virtue of victory.
Only free men can negotiate. Prisoners
Only free men can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts.
It is better that ten guilty persons
It is better that ten guilty persons escape, than that one innocent suffer.
The world is a prison in which solitary
The world is a prison in which solitary confinement is preferable.
Body is a home, a prison and a grave.
Body is a home, a prison and a grave.
The penalty for laughing in a courtroom
The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence.
Well does Heaven have care that no man
Well does Heaven have care that no man secures happiness by crime.
They're not supposed to show prison
They're not supposed to show prison films in prison. Especially ones that are about escaping.
The reformative effect of punishment is
The reformative effect of punishment is a belief that dies hard, chiefly I think, because it is so satisfying to our sadistic impulses.
The refined punishments of the spiritual
The refined punishments of the spiritual mode are usually much more indecent and dangerous than a good smack.
Injustice anywhere is a threat to
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.
Any punishment that does not correct,
Any punishment that does not correct, that can merely rouse rebellion in whoever has to endure it, is a piece of gratuitous infamy which makes those who impose it more guilty in the eyes of humanity, good sense and reason, nay a hundred times more guilty than the victim on whom the punishment is inflicted.
