You utter a vow, or forge a signature,
You utter a vow, or forge a signature, and you may find yourself bound for life to a monastery, a woman, or prison.
If two people fight on the street, whose
If two people fight on the street, whose fault is it? Who is the criminal? It is the government’s responsibility because the government has not educated the people to not make mistakes. The people have inadequate, incompetent education, so they make mistakes! It is such a fraud.
We're in a war. People who blast some
We're in a war. People who blast some pot on a casual basis are guilty of treason.
One crime is everything; two nothing.
One crime is everything; two nothing.
The severest justice may not always be
The severest justice may not always be the best policy.
There is no peace because the making of
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.
Hanging was the worst use a man could be
Hanging was the worst use a man could be put to.
Laws do not persuade just because they
Laws do not persuade just because they threaten.
Virtue pardons the wicked, as the
Virtue pardons the wicked, as the sandal-tree perfumes the axe which strikes it.
To be in prison so long, it's difficult
To be in prison so long, it's difficult to remember exactly what you did to get there.
Crimes generally punish themselves.
Crimes generally punish themselves.
When it comes to freedom, we are but
When it comes to freedom, we are but prisoners of our own desires.
Justice is that virtue of the soul which
Justice is that virtue of the soul which is distributive according to desert.
It is more dangerous that even a guilty
It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.
A man who has no excuse for a crime, is
A man who has no excuse for a crime, is indeed defenseless!
When you are younger you get blamed for
When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out.
No man should be judge in his own case.
No man should be judge in his own case.
Nor cell, nor chain, nor dungeon speaks
Nor cell, nor chain, nor dungeon speaks to the murderer like the voice of solitude.
The worst of prison life, he thought,
The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.
Forgiveness, that noblest of all
Forgiveness, that noblest of all self-denial, is a virtue which he alone who can practise in himself can willingly believe in another.
He who profits by a crime commits it.
He who profits by a crime commits it.
To be at peace in crime! Ah, who can
To be at peace in crime! Ah, who can thus flatter himself.
Liberty is rendered even more precious
Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.
There's no greater threat to our
There's no greater threat to our independence, to our cherished freedoms and personal liberties than the continual, relentless injection of these insidious poisons into our system. We must decide whether we cherish independence from drugs, without which there is no freedom.
While crime is punished it yet
While crime is punished it yet increases.
