They took away my money, my family, and my security. Why couldn't they destroy my ideas? We will question them in court tomorrow as we trigger The Revolution of all revolutions!
It is impossible to go through life without trust: That is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.
Hard cases, it is said, make bad law.
Hanging was the worst use a man could be put to.
Show me the prison, Show me the jail, Show me the prisoner whose life has gone stale. And I'll show you a young man with so many reasons why And there, but for fortune, go you or I.
America is the land of the second chance – and when the gates of the prison open, the path ahead should lead to a better life.
He who profits by a crime commits it.
Crime is a logical extension of the sort of behavior that often [is] considered perfectly respectable in legitimate business.
I asked a man in prison once how he happened to be there and he said he had stolen a pair of shoes. I told him if he had stolen a railroad he would be a United States Senator.
Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them.
Faults of the head are punished in this world, those of the heart in another; but as most of our vices are compound, so also is their punishment.
Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.
Federal prison, if you get any of it, you're going to have to do 85% of it. And the reason why I called it that is because I had a friend who got sent to the federal joint and his whole... it wasn't about him being in jail. He cried about the 85%.
If punishment reaches not the mind and makes not the will supple, it hardens the offender.
The number of laws is constantly growing in all countries and, owing to this, what is called crime is very often not a crime at all, for it contains no element of violence or harm.
I don't like being famous - it is like a prison. And driving for Ferrari would make it far worse.
History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.
Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.
A sick person is a prisoner.
The severest justice may not always be the best policy.
Do not lay on the multitude the blame that is due to a few.
So justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes.
No matter how you seem to fatten on a crime, that can never be good for the bee which is bad for the hive.
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.
In prison, you get the chance to see who really loves you.
