I sometimes wish that people would put a
I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis upon the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement.
Hard cases, it is said, make bad law.
Hard cases, it is said, make bad law.
There are only two places in the world
There are only two places in the world where time takes precedence over the job to be done. School and prison.
Why would anyone expect him to come out
Why would anyone expect him to come out smarter? He went to prison for three years, not Princeton.
I don't like being famous - it is like a
I don't like being famous - it is like a prison. And driving for Ferrari would make it far worse.
Whatever you think of de Sade, he was a
Whatever you think of de Sade, he was a complex figure and we should not look for easy answers with him. He was, strangely perhaps, against the death penalty, and he was never put in prison for murders or anything like that.
As we grow in wisdom, we pardon more
As we grow in wisdom, we pardon more freely.
The object of punishment is prevention
The object of punishment is prevention from evil; it never can be made impulsive to good.
To seek the redress of grievances by
To seek the redress of grievances by going to law, is like sheep running for shelter to a bramble bush.
The power of punishment is to silence,
The power of punishment is to silence, not to confute.
The only effect of public punishment is
The only effect of public punishment is to show the rabble how bravely it can be borne; and that every one who hath lost a toe-nail hath suffered worse.
I have never been contained except I
I have never been contained except I made the prison.
Liberty is rendered even more precious
Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.
The most anxious man in a prison is the
The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.
A man who has no excuse for a crime, is
A man who has no excuse for a crime, is indeed defenseless!
Crime succeeds by sudden despatch;
Crime succeeds by sudden despatch; honest counsels gain vigor by delay.
Trial by jury itself, instead of being a
Trial by jury itself, instead of being a security to persons who are accused, shall be a delusion, a mockery, and a snare.
We are prisoners of ideas.
We are prisoners of ideas.
A just chastisement may benefit a man,
A just chastisement may benefit a man, though it seldom does; but an unjust one changes all his blood to gall.
Only free men can negotiate. Prisoners
Only free men can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts.
Faults of the head are punished in this
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.
History is full of people who went to
History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.
I have been studying how I may compare
I have been studying how I may compare This prison where I live unto the world; And, for because the world is populous, And here is not a creature but myself, I cannot do it. Yet I'll hammer it out.
Corporal punishment falls far more
Corporal punishment falls far more heavily than most weighty pecuniary penalty.
Justice is that virtue of the soul which
Justice is that virtue of the soul which is distributive according to desert.
