Quotes

Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.

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

We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business.

No written law has been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.

Steal goods and you’ll go to prison, steal lands and you are a king.

The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear.

I can work for the Lord in or out of prison.

Self is the only prison that can bind the soul.

Shyness is the prison of the heart.

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

Laws do not persuade just because they threaten.

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

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.

A country is in a bad state, which is governed only by laws; because a thousand things occur for which laws cannot provide, and where authority ought to interpose.

By noiselessly going to a prison a civil-resister ensures a calm atmosphere.

The refined punishments of the spiritual mode are usually much more indecent and dangerous than a good smack.

Since 1957, black people have experienced double-digit unemployment - in good times and bad times. Look at the population of African Americans in prison. They represent more than half the population of prisoners in the country, 55 percent of those on death row.

What restrains us from killing is partly fear of punishment, partly moral scruple, and partly what may be described as a sense of humor.

He was a first-time nonviolent possible offender, ... And under the mandatory minimums, he was put in prison for 15 years. Not only does the punishment not fit the crime, but the mandatory minimums don't give judges any discretion to look at the background of the case, to read into the specifics of the case. I don't know a judge who really is in favor of the mandatory minimums.

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

I was in prison, and you came unto me. Verily I say unto you, inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.
~(Jesus Christ) Matthew 25:36, 40

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.

The solution to our drug problem is not in incarceration.

Extreme justice is extreme injustice.

Show me the prison, Show me the jail, Show me the prisoner whose life has gone stale. And I'll show you a young man with so many reasons why And there, but for fortune, go you or I.