Quotes

A country is in a bad state, which is governed only by laws; because a thousand things occur for which laws cannot provide, and where authority ought to interpose.

He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.

Well does Heaven have care that no man secures happiness by crime.

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.

Society has used the juvenile courts to create a caste system where there are throw-away people.

The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.

By noiselessly going to a prison a civil-resister ensures a calm atmosphere.

To seek the redress of grievances by going to law, is like sheep running for shelter to a bramble bush.

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

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

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.

It becomes not a law-maker to be a law-breaker.

One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.

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

We shall fight against them, throw them in prisons and destroy them.

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

We shall not yield to violence. We shall not be deprived of union freedoms. We shall never agree with sending people to prison for their convictions.

It is safer that a bad man should not be accused, than that he should be acquitted.

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

The best situation of all, and one frequently utilized, is for jails and prisons to allow volunteer ministers of all faiths to enter prisons and offer their services to the inmates who want them. That way, the religious needs of inmates are met but without government funds being spent.

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.

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

A sick person is a prisoner.

Pardon is the virtue of victory.

The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear.