Quotes

It isn't true that convicts live like animals: animals have more room to move around.

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

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

One man meets an infamous punishment for that crime which confers a diadem upon another.

The perfection of a thing consists in its essence; there are perfect criminals, as there are men of perfect probity.

I was in prison, and you came unto me. Verily I say unto you, inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.
~(Jesus Christ) Matthew 25:36, 40

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

Justice is justice though it's always delayed and finally done only by mistake.

Body is a home, a prison and a grave.

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.

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

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.

In prisons, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all.

No matter how you seem to fatten on a crime, that can never be good for the bee which is bad for the hive.

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.

Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future lives and crimes to society.

Whatever is worthy to be loved for anything is worthy of preservation. A wise and dispassionate legislator, if any such should ever arise among men, will not condemn to death him who has done or is likely to do more service than injury to society. Blocks and gibbets are the nearest objects with legislators, and their business is never with hopes or with virtues.

Pardon is the virtue of victory.

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

I asked a man in prison once how he happened to be there and he said he had stolen a pair of shoes. I told him if he had stolen a railroad he would be a United States Senator.

Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.

Fear can be like a prison. It is, however, a self made prison. Many are imprisoned by fear. No one else can liberate them from this prison. Others may inspire them but they must liberate themselves.

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

Adversities such as being homeless and going to prison has made many people stronger.

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