Quotes

To be at peace in crime! Ah, who can thus flatter himself.

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

One crime has to be concealed by another.

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

Fast closed with double grills
And triple gates – the cell
To wicked souls is hell;
But to a mind that's innocent
'Tis only iron, wood and stone.

Federal prison, if you get any of it, you're going to have to do 85% of it. And the reason why I called it that is because I had a friend who got sent to the federal joint and his whole... it wasn't about him being in jail. He cried about the 85%.

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.

Nelson Mandela and Malcolm X came out of prison stronger.

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

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

Prison, dungeons, blessed places where evil is impossible because they are the crossroads of all the evil in the world. One cannot commit evil in hell.

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

While crime is punished it yet increases.

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

It is not at the table, but in prison, that you learn who your true friends are.

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

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.

Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.

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.

How dreadful it is when the right judge judges wrong.

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

It is the deed that teaches, not the name we give it. Murder and capital punishment are not opposites that cancel one another, but similars that breed their own kind.

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.

Crimes generally punish themselves.

Forgiveness, that noblest of all self-denial, is a virtue which he alone who can practise in himself can willingly believe in another.