Quotes

Wherever any one is against his will, that is to him a prison.

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.

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

Crimes lead one into another; they who are capable of being forgers are capable of being incendiaries.

The severest justice may not always be the best policy.

A country is in a bad state, which is governed only by laws; because a thousand things occur for which laws cannot provide, and where authority ought to interpose.

Well, I don't think prisons are the answer to everything, obviously.

It becomes not a law-maker to be a law-breaker.

If we were brought to trial for the crimes we have committed against ourselves, few would escape the gallows.

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.

In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.

They were being driven to a prison, through no fault of their own, in all probability for life. In comparison, how much easier it would be to walk to the gallows than to this tomb of living horrors!

The object of punishment is prevention from evil; it never can be made impulsive to good.

Mere factual innocence is no reason not to carry out a death sentence properly reached.

I never told a victim story about my imprisonment. Instead, I told a transformation story - about how prison changed my outlook, about how I saw that communication, truth, and trust are at the heart of power.

One crime has to be concealed by another.

As we grow in wisdom, we pardon more freely.

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

To seek the redress of grievances by going to law, is like sheep running for shelter to a bramble bush.

The contagion of crime is like that of the plague. Criminals collected together corrupt each other; they are worse than ever when at the termination of their punishment they re-enter society.

We're in a war. People who blast some pot on a casual basis are guilty of treason.

Any punishment that does not correct, that can merely rouse rebellion in whoever has to endure it, is a piece of gratuitous infamy which makes those who impose it more guilty in the eyes of humanity, good sense and reason, nay a hundred times more guilty than the victim on whom the punishment is inflicted.

Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.

The public have more interest in the punishment of an injury than he who receives it.

One man meets an infamous punishment for that crime which confers a diadem upon another.