Quotes

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

There is no peace because the making of peace is at least as costly as the making of war - at least as exigent, at least as disruptive, at least as liable to bring disgrace and prison and death in its wake.

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.

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

When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff.

There are few better measures of the concern a society has for its individual members and its own well being than the way it handles criminals.

As we grow in wisdom, we pardon more freely.

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

Wicked deeds are generally done, even with impunity, for the mere desire of occupation.

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

A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards, as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push.

The object of punishment is prevention from evil; it never can be made impulsive to good.

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

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

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

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

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

The worst prison is not of stone. It is of a throbbing heart, outraged by an infamous life.

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

To try to raise a son from inside the prison walls is a very difficult thing. But I want to say to the world my son at 16 was the one who tried the most to get me out of prison.
~Jim Bakker

If you want total security, go to prison. There you’re fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking…is freedom.

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.

Care should be taken that the punishment does not exceed the guilt; and also that some men do not suffer for offenses for which others are not even indicted.

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

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.