Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.
The English laws punish vice; the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue.
Crime is a logical extension of the sort of behavior that often [is] considered perfectly respectable in legitimate business.
No man survives when freedom fails. The best men rot in filthy jails, and those who cry 'appease, appease' are hanged by those they tried to please.
It is hard, but it is excellent, to find the right knowledge of when correction is necessary and when grace doth most avail.
There is no peace because the making of peace is at least as costly as the making of war - at least as exigent, at least as disruptive, at least as liable to bring disgrace and prison and death in its wake.
No matter how you seem to fatten on a crime, that can never be good for the bee which is bad for the hive.
Virtue pardons the wicked, as the sandal-tree perfumes the axe which strikes it.
Concepts of justice must have hands and feet to carry out justice in every case in the shortest possible time and the lowest possible cost. That is the challenge to every lawyer and judge in America.
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.
Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.
The power of punishment is to silence, not to confute.
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!
Hanging was the worst use a man could be put to.
A variety in punishment is of utility, as well as a proportion.
To trial bring her stolen charms, and let her prison be my arms.
If we look at Houston, which is a very environmentally toxic place, we find that it has one of the highest levels of young men going to prison and also among the highest levels of illiteracy in the country.
He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.
When it comes to freedom, we are but prisoners of our own desires.
If punishment reaches not the mind and makes not the will supple, it hardens the offender.
The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.
In prison, you get the chance to see who really loves you.
Vices are not crimes.
What is crime amongst the multitude, is only vice among the few.
