Quotes

You stuff somebody into the American dream, and it becomes a prison.

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

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.

It is better that ten guilty persons escape, than that one innocent suffer.

One crime has to be concealed by another.

The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.

Body is a home, a prison and a grave.

Crimes generally punish themselves.

If you strike at, imprison, or kill us, out of our prisons or graves we will still evoke a spirit that will thwart you, and perhaps, raise a force that will destroy you! We defy you! Do your worst!

I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis upon the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement.

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.

What is crime amongst the multitude, is only vice among the few.

He had drawn many a thousand of these rations in prisons and camps, and though he'd never had an opportunity to weight them on scales, and although, being a man of timid nature, he knew no way of standing up for his rights, he, like every other prisoner, had discovered long ago that honest weight was never to be found in the bread-cutting. There was short weight in every ration. The only point was how short. So every day you took a look to soothe your soul - today, maybe, they haven't snitched any.

No crime has been without a precedent.

Women have worked hard; starved in prison; given of their time and lives that we might sit in the House of Commons and take part in the legislating of this country.

As we grow in wisdom, we pardon more freely.

No obligation to justice does force a man to be cruel, or to use the sharpest sentence.

It isn't true that convicts live like animals: animals have more room to move around.

It is hard, but it is excellent, to find the right knowledge of when correction is necessary and when grace doth most avail.

The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.

Written laws are like spiders' webs, and will, like them, only entangle and hold the poor and weak, while the rich and powerful will easily break through them.

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

Since 1957, black people have experienced double-digit unemployment - in good times and bad times. Look at the population of African Americans in prison. They represent more than half the population of prisoners in the country, 55 percent of those on death row.

Virtue pardons the wicked, as the sandal-tree perfumes the axe which strikes it.

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