One crime is everything; two nothing.
One crime is everything; two nothing.
It is hard, but it is excellent, to find
It is hard, but it is excellent, to find the right knowledge of when correction is necessary and when grace doth most avail.
The only difference between me and my
The only difference between me and my fellow actors is that I've spent more time in jail.
There are dreadful punishments enacted
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.
Shyness is the prison of the heart.
Shyness is the prison of the heart.
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.
It is impossible to go through life
It is impossible to go through life without trust: That is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.
Law is merely the expression of the will
Law is merely the expression of the will of the strongest for the time being, and therefore laws have no fixity, but shift from generation to generation.
Concepts of justice must have hands and
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.
The English laws punish vice; the
The English laws punish vice; the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue.
There is a point at which even justice
There is a point at which even justice does injury.
If you strike at, imprison, or kill us,
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!
In prisons, those things withheld from
In prisons, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all.
Justice renders to every one his due.
Justice renders to every one his due.
Women now have choices. They can be
Women now have choices. They can be married, not married, have a job, not have a job, be married with children, unmarried with children. Men have the same choice we've always had: work, or prison.
We don't seem to be able to check crime,
We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business.
No man should be judge in his own case.
No man should be judge in his own case.
A variety in punishment is of utility,
A variety in punishment is of utility, as well as a proportion.
It is safer that a bad man should not be
It is safer that a bad man should not be accused, than that he should be acquitted.
Some laws of state aimed at curbing
Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.
Hard cases, it is said, make bad law.
Hard cases, it is said, make bad law.
Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule
Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law.
Civilization is maintained by a very few
Civilization is maintained by a very few people in a small number of places and we need only some bombs and a few prisons to blot it out altogether.
Federal prison, if you get any of it,
Federal prison, if you get any of it, you're going to have to do 85% of it. And the reason why I called it that is because I had a friend who got sent to the federal joint and his whole... it wasn't about him being in jail. He cried about the 85%.
Body is a home, a prison and a grave.
Body is a home, a prison and a grave.
