Justice is justice though it's always
Justice is justice though it's always delayed and finally done only by mistake.
There's no greater threat to our
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.
Shyness is the prison of the heart.
Shyness is the prison of the heart.
There is a point at which even justice
There is a point at which even justice does injury.
We who live in prison, and in whose
We who live in prison, and in whose lives there is no event but sorrow, have to measure time by throbs of pain, and the record of bitter moments.
I existed in a world that never is - the
I existed in a world that never is - the prison of the mind.
When it comes to freedom, we are but
When it comes to freedom, we are but prisoners of our own desires.
How dreadful it is when the right judge
How dreadful it is when the right judge judges wrong.
Kill a man, and you are an assassin.
Kill a man, and you are an assassin. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill everyone, and you are a God.
Wherever any one is against his will,
Wherever any one is against his will, that is to him a prison.
The virtue of justice consists in
The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.
Mere factual innocence is no reason not
Mere factual innocence is no reason not to carry out a death sentence properly reached.
Organized crime in America takes in over
Organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year. This is quite a profitable sum, especially when one considers that the Mafia spends very little for office supplies.
Forgiveness, that noblest of all
Forgiveness, that noblest of all self-denial, is a virtue which he alone who can practise in himself can willingly believe in another.
Let us remember that justice must be
Let us remember that justice must be observed even to the lowest.
The public have more interest in the
The public have more interest in the punishment of an injury than he who receives it.
If it's near dinner-time, the foreman
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?
Distrust all in whom the impulse to
Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.
I was put into jail as I was going to
I was put into jail as I was going to the shoemaker's to get a shoe which was mended. When I was let out the next morning, I proceeded to finish my errand, and, having put on my mended shoe, joined a huckleberry party, who were impatient to put themselves under my conduct; and in half an hour -- for the horse was soon tackled -- was in the midst of a huckleberry field, on one of our highest hills, two miles off, and then the State was nowhere to be seen.
You utter a vow, or forge a signature,
You utter a vow, or forge a signature, and you may find yourself bound for life to a monastery, a woman, or prison.
Liberty is rendered even more precious
Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.
He was a first-time nonviolent possible
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.
Most people fancy themselves innocent of
I have never been contained except I
I have never been contained except I made the prison.
The English laws punish vice; the
The English laws punish vice; the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue.
