Quotes

Those magistrates who can prevent crime, and do not, in effect encourage it.

Corporal punishment falls far more heavily than most weighty pecuniary penalty.

And while God had work for Paul, he found him friends both in court and prison. Let persecutors send saints to prison, God can provide a keeper for their turn.

When it comes to freedom, we are but prisoners of our own desires.

I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope.

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

Every instance of a man's suffering the penalty of the law is an instance of the failure of that penalty in effecting its purpose, which is to deter.

We are prisoners of ideas.

I have never been contained except I made the prison.

It was only when I lay there on the rotting prison straw that I sensed within myself the first stirrings of good. Gradually it was disclosed to me that the line separating good and evil passes not between states nor between social classes nor between political parties, but right through every human heart, through all human hearts. And that is why I turn back to the years of my imprisonment and say, sometimes to the astonishment of those about me, bless you, prison, for having been a part of my life.

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%.

Trial by jury itself, instead of being a security to persons who are accused, shall be a delusion, a mockery, and a snare.

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

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

Nelson Mandela and Malcolm X came out of prison stronger.

The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence.

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

Clemency alone makes us equal to the gods.

Crime is a logical extension of the sort of behavior that often [is] considered perfectly respectable in legitimate business.

History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.

Justice renders to every one his due.

The idea that the sole aim of punishment is to prevent crime is obviously grounded upon the theory that crime can be prevented, which is almost as dubious as the notion that poverty can be prevented.

The world is a prison in which solitary confinement is preferable.

If it's near dinner-time, the foreman takes out his watch when the jury has retired, and says: "Dear me, gentlemen, ten minutes to five, I declare! I dine at five, gentlemen." "So do I," says everybody else, except two men who ought to have dined at three and seem more than half disposed to stand out in consequence. The foreman smiles, and puts up his watch:--"Well, gentlemen, what do we say, plaintiff or defendant, gentlemen?