Quotes

No written law has been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.

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

It is hard, but it is excellent, to find the right knowledge of when correction is necessary and when grace doth most avail.

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

There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.

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

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

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

Vices are not crimes.

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

I wrote a million words in the first year, and I could never have done that outside of prison.

No obligation to justice does force a man to be cruel, or to use the sharpest sentence.

If we look at Houston, which is a very environmentally toxic place, we find that it has one of the highest levels of young men going to prison and also among the highest levels of illiteracy in the country.

Hard cases, it is said, make bad law.

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

Experts and the educated elite have replaced what worked with what sounded good. Society was far more civilized before they took over our schools, prisons, welfare programs, police departments and courts. It's high time we ran these people out of our lives and went back to common sense.

Nelson Mandela and Malcolm X came out of prison stronger.

How dreadful it is when the right judge judges wrong.

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.

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.

The public have more interest in the punishment of an injury than he who receives it.

Corporal punishment falls far more heavily than most weighty pecuniary penalty.

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

The power of punishment is to silence, not to confute.

I don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there.