Quotes

No obligation to justice does force a man to be cruel, or to use the sharpest sentence.

You stuff somebody into the American dream, and it becomes a prison.

To be in prison so long, it's difficult to remember exactly what you did to get there.

It is true you cannot eat freedom and you cannot power machinery with democracy. But then neither can political prisoners turn on the light in the cells of a dictatorship.

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!

Women now have choices. They can be married, not married, have a job, not have a job, be married with children, unmarried with children. Men have the same choice we've always had: work, or prison.

No man should be judge in his own case.

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.

The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.

No man survives when freedom fails. The best men rot in filthy jails, and those who cry 'appease, appease' are hanged by those they tried to please.

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

What restrains us from killing is partly fear of punishment, partly moral scruple, and partly what may be described as a sense of humor.

Whatever is worthy to be loved for anything is worthy of preservation. A wise and dispassionate legislator, if any such should ever arise among men, will not condemn to death him who has done or is likely to do more service than injury to society. Blocks and gibbets are the nearest objects with legislators, and their business is never with hopes or with virtues.

Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.

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.

Crime succeeds by sudden despatch; honest counsels gain vigor by delay.

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.

Shyness is the prison of the heart.

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.

It is not at the table, but in prison, that you learn who your true friends are.

Prison makes you a better judge of character. You pick up on people much faster.

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

He was a first-time nonviolent possible offender, ... And under the mandatory minimums, he was put in prison for 15 years. Not only does the punishment not fit the crime, but the mandatory minimums don't give judges any discretion to look at the background of the case, to read into the specifics of the case. I don't know a judge who really is in favor of the mandatory minimums.

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

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.