Quotes

No man survives when freedom fails. The best men rot in filthy jails, and those who cry 'appease, appease' are hanged by those they tried to please.

We have our own system, ... and journalists in our system are not put in prison for embarrassing the government by revealing things the government might not wish to have revealed. The important thing is that our system, under which journalists can write without fear or favor, should continue.

It is better that ten guilty persons escape, than that one innocent suffer.

A just chastisement may benefit a man, though it seldom does; but an unjust one changes all his blood to gall.

One of the problems that the marijuana reform movement consistently faces is that everyone wants to talk about what marijuana does, but no one ever wants to look at what marijuana prohibition does. Marijuana never kicks down your door in the middle of the night. Marijuana never locks up sick and dying people, does not suppress medical research, does not peek in bedroom windows. Even if one takes every reefer madness allegation of the prohibitionists at face value, marijuana prohibition has done far more harm to far more people than marijuana ever could.

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.

In prison, you get the chance to see who really loves you.

Why would anyone expect him to come out smarter? He went to prison for three years, not Princeton.

Faults of the head are punished in this world, those of the heart in another; but as most of our vices are compound, so also is their punishment.

Pardon is the virtue of victory.

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

The punishment can be remitted; the crime is everlasting.

We are prisoners of ideas.

Crime succeeds by sudden despatch; honest counsels gain vigor by delay.

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

There are only two places in the world where time takes precedence over the job to be done. School and prison.

The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.

Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.

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

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.

To make punishments efficacious, two things are necessary. They must never be disproportioned to the offence, and they must be certain.

A sick person is a prisoner.

One crime has to be concealed by another.

You utter a vow, or forge a signature, and you may find yourself bound for life to a monastery, a woman, or prison.