Quotes

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

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

If punishment reaches not the mind and makes not the will supple, it hardens the offender.

There are few better measures of the concern a society has for its individual members and its own well being than the way it handles criminals.

Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except for the imminent threat of release.

The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.

A man who has no excuse for a crime, is indeed defenseless!

Wherever any one is against his will, that is to him a prison.

A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space.

Extreme justice is extreme injustice.

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.

If two people fight on the street, whose fault is it? Who is the criminal? It is the government’s responsibility because the government has not educated the people to not make mistakes. The people have inadequate, incompetent education, so they make mistakes! It is such a fraud.

Do not lay on the multitude the blame that is due to a few.

Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law.

Kill a man, and you are an assassin. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill everyone, and you are a God.

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.

Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our duty is to furnish it well.

He who profits by a crime commits it.

The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison walls.

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.

Any punishment that does not correct, that can merely rouse rebellion in whoever has to endure it, is a piece of gratuitous infamy which makes those who impose it more guilty in the eyes of humanity, good sense and reason, nay a hundred times more guilty than the victim on whom the punishment is inflicted.

Justice renders to every one his due.

The thoughts of a prisoner - they're not free either. They keep returning to the same things.

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

Hanging was the worst use a man could be put to.