Quotes

Forgiveness, that noblest of all self-denial, is a virtue which he alone who can practise in himself can willingly believe in another.

If we were brought to trial for the crimes we have committed against ourselves, few would escape the gallows.

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

Oh who is that young sinner with the handcuffs on his wrist? And what has he been after that they groan and shake their fists? And wherefore is he wearing such a conscience-stricken air? Oh they're taking him to prison for the colour of his hair.

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.

Crimes lead one into another; they who are capable of being forgers are capable of being incendiaries.

It is hard, but it is excellent, to find the right knowledge of when correction is necessary and when grace doth most avail.

The thoughts of a prisoner - they're not free either. They keep returning to the same things.

The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.

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.

In a civilized society, all crimes are likely to be sins, but most sins are not and ought not to be treated as crimes.

If we look at Houston, which is a very environmentally toxic place, we find that it has one of the highest levels of young men going to prison and also among the highest levels of illiteracy in the country.

I never saw a man who looked With such a wistful eye Upon that little tent of blue Which prisoners call the sky.

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

Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.

Let us remember that justice must be observed even to the lowest.

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.

I don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there.

The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.

There are dreadful punishments enacted against thieves; but it were much better to make such good provisions, by which every man might be put in a method how to live, and so to be preserved from the fatal necessity of stealing and dying for it.

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.

Prison makes you a better judge of character. You pick up on people much faster.

A man who has no excuse for a crime, is indeed defenseless!

Hard cases, it is said, make bad law.

A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.