Quotes

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

Nor stony tower, nor walls of beaten brass, Nor airless dungeon, nor strong links of iron, Can be retentive to the strength of spirit; But life, being weary of these worldly bars, Never lacks power to dismiss itself.

A just chastisement may benefit a man, though it seldom does; but an unjust one changes all his blood to gall.

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

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.

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

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

When it comes to freedom, we are but prisoners of our own desires.

Hanging was the worst use a man could be put to.

The public have more interest in the punishment of an injury than he who receives it.

On average, drug prisoners spend more time in federal prison than rapists, who often get out on early release because of the overcrowding in prison caused by the Drug War.

Punishment, that is the justice for the unjust.

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

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

Self is the only prison that can bind the soul.

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

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

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.

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.

To trial bring her stolen charms, and let her prison be my arms.

One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.

No man should be judge in his own case.

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

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

As we grow in wisdom, we pardon more freely.