Quotes

We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.

Hard cases, it is said, make bad law.

On a planet that increasingly resembles one huge Maximum Security prison, the only intelligent choice is to plan a jail break.

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.

Do not lay on the multitude the blame that is due to a few.

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.

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.

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

There are dreadful punishments enacted against thieves; but it were much better to make such good provisions, by which every man might be put in a method how to live, and so to be preserved from the fatal necessity of stealing and dying for it.

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

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.

So justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes.

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

Here the great art lies, to discern in what the law is to be to restraint and punishment, and in what things persuasion only is to work.

To my mind, to kill in war is not a whit better than to commit ordinary murder.

The worst prison is not of stone. It is of a throbbing heart, outraged by an infamous life.

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

The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.

The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear.

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

Laws do not persuade just because they threaten.

When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff.

There are few better measures of the concern a society has for its individual members and its own well being than the way it handles criminals.

The refined punishments of the spiritual mode are usually much more indecent and dangerous than a good smack.

Justice is justice though it's always delayed and finally done only by mistake.