Quotes

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.

There are only two places in the world where time takes precedence over the job to be done. School and prison.

If you strike at, imprison, or kill us, out of our prisons or graves we will still evoke a spirit that will thwart you, and perhaps, raise a force that will destroy you! We defy you! Do your worst!

Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them.

So justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes.

Pardon is the virtue of victory.

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

Vices are not crimes.

The best situation of all, and one frequently utilized, is for jails and prisons to allow volunteer ministers of all faiths to enter prisons and offer their services to the inmates who want them. That way, the religious needs of inmates are met but without government funds being spent.

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

Shyness is the prison of the heart.

He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.

Only free men can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts.

A variety in punishment is of utility, as well as a proportion.

Intellectual despair results in neither weakness nor dreams, but in violence. It is only a matter of knowing how to give vent to one's rage; whether one only wants to wander like madmen around prisons, or whether one wants to overturn them.

Written laws are like spiders' webs, and will, like them, only entangle and hold the poor and weak, while the rich and powerful will easily break through them.

While crime is punished it yet increases.

Overlook our deeds, since you know that crime was absent from our inclination.

Nelson Mandela and Malcolm X came out of prison stronger.

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

If it's near dinner-time, the foreman takes out his watch when the jury has retired, and says: "Dear me, gentlemen, ten minutes to five, I declare! I dine at five, gentlemen." "So do I," says everybody else, except two men who ought to have dined at three and seem more than half disposed to stand out in consequence. The foreman smiles, and puts up his watch:--"Well, gentlemen, what do we say, plaintiff or defendant, gentlemen?

No crime has been without a precedent.

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.

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.

Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.