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.
In my country we go to prison first and then become President.
The worst prison is not of stone. It is of a throbbing heart, outraged by an infamous life.
Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them.
Overlook our deeds, since you know that crime was absent from our inclination.
Pardon is the virtue of victory.
Crimes lead one into another; they who are capable of being forgers are capable of being incendiaries.
Prison makes you a better judge of character. You pick up on people much faster.
I have paid no poll-tax for six years. I was put into a jail once on this account, for one night; and, as I stood considering the walls of solid stone, I could not help being struck with the foolishness of that institution which treated me as if I were mere flesh and blood and bones, to be locked up...I saw that, if there was a wall of stone between me and my townsmen, there was a still more difficult one to climb or break through, before they could get to be as free as I was.
Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.
Extreme justice is extreme injustice.
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.
Money will determine whether the accused goes to prison or walks out of the courtroom a free man.
No obligation to justice does force a man to be cruel, or to use the sharpest sentence.
A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space.
We shall fight against them, throw them in prisons and destroy them.
Hanging was the worst use a man could be put to.
No crime has been without a precedent.
When is conduct a crime, and when is a crime not a crime? When Somebody Up There -- a monarch, a dictator, a Pope, a legislator -- so decrees.
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.
One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.
It is not at the table, but in prison, that you learn who your true friends are.
If we were brought to trial for the crimes we have committed against ourselves, few would escape the gallows.
In prisons, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all.
Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.
