Quotes

It becomes not a law-maker to be a law-breaker.

Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our duty is to furnish it well.

Hard cases, it is said, make bad law.

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.

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

Kill a man, and you are an assassin. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill everyone, and you are a God.

Trial by jury itself, instead of being a security to persons who are accused, shall be a delusion, a mockery, and a snare.

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

Well does Heaven have care that no man secures happiness by crime.

We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.

What is crime amongst the multitude, is only vice among the few.

Shyness is the prison of the heart.

Wherever any one is against his will, that is to him a prison.

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

The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget.

He who profits by a crime commits it.

I have been studying how I may compare this prison where I live unto the world; Shut up in the prison of their own consciences.

In my country we go to prison first and then become President.

If you share the crime of your friend, you make it your own.

It is impossible to go through life without trust: That is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.

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

They took away my money, my family, and my security. Why couldn't they destroy my ideas? We will question them in court tomorrow as we trigger The Revolution of all revolutions!

It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.

To my mind, to kill in war is not a whit better than to commit ordinary murder.

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.