Quotes

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

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

I don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there.

Vices are not crimes.

The power of punishment is to silence, not to confute.

Kill a man, and you are an assassin. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill everyone, and you are a God.

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.

I have never been contained except I made the prison.

When it comes to freedom, we are but prisoners of our own desires.

The world is a prison in which solitary confinement is preferable.

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.

Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.

Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future lives and crimes to society.

The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.

We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business.

I know not whether laws be right, or whether laws be wrong; All that we know who lie in gaol is that the wall is strong; And that each day is like a year, a year whose days are long.

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

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!

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

It is safer that a bad man should not be accused, than that he should be acquitted.

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.

Man is condemned to be free.

Well does Heaven have care that no man secures happiness by crime.

Organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year. This is quite a profitable sum, especially when one considers that the Mafia spends very little for office supplies.

Extreme justice is extreme injustice.