A country is in a bad state, which is governed only by laws; because a thousand things occur for which laws cannot provide, and where authority ought to interpose.
Reality becomes a prison to those who can’t get out of it.
The object of punishment is prevention from evil; it never can be made impulsive to good.
I was in prison, and you came unto me. Verily I say unto you, inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.
~(Jesus Christ) Matthew 25:36, 40
While we have prisons it matters little which of us occupy the cells.
Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.
A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
Crimes lead one into another; they who are capable of being forgers are capable of being incendiaries.
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.
Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.
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.
It isn't true that convicts live like animals: animals have more room to move around.
I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope.
A man who has no excuse for a crime, is indeed defenseless!
The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget.
The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.
It is not at the table, but in prison, that you learn who your true friends are.
To be in prison so long, it's difficult to remember exactly what you did to get there.
The best situation of all, and one frequently utilized, is for jails and prisons to allow volunteer ministers of all faiths to enter prisons and offer their services to the inmates who want them. That way, the religious needs of inmates are met but without government funds being spent.
Well does Heaven have care that no man secures happiness by crime.
Why would anyone expect him to come out smarter? He went to prison for three years, not Princeton.
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
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.
One crime is everything; two nothing.
