Crimes generally punish themselves.
Crimes generally punish themselves.
We judge ourselves by what we feel
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
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.
No written law has been more binding
No written law has been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.
Justice is justice though it's always
Justice is justice though it's always delayed and finally done only by mistake.
The difference between tax avoidance and
The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison walls.
Well does Heaven have care that no man
Well does Heaven have care that no man secures happiness by crime.
We shall fight against them, throw them
We shall fight against them, throw them in prisons and destroy them.
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.
To trial bring her stolen charms, and
To trial bring her stolen charms, and let her prison be my arms.
Nor cell, nor chain, nor dungeon speaks
Nor cell, nor chain, nor dungeon speaks to the murderer like the voice of solitude.
Every crime has, in the moment of its
Every crime has, in the moment of its perpetration, Its own avenging angel--dark misgiving, An ominous sinking at the inmost heart.
It isn't true that convicts live like
It isn't true that convicts live like animals: animals have more room to move around.
While we have prisons it matters little
While we have prisons it matters little which of us occupy the cells.
Probably the only place where a man can
Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except for the imminent threat of release.
The virtue of justice consists in
The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.
What is crime amongst the multitude, is
What is crime amongst the multitude, is only vice among the few.
You stuff somebody into the American
You stuff somebody into the American dream, and it becomes a prison.
The severest justice may not always be
The severest justice may not always be the best policy.
If you strike at, imprison, or kill us,
If you strike at, imprison, or kill us, out of our prisons or graves we will still evoke a spirit that will thwart you, and perhaps, raise a force that will destroy you! We defy you! Do your worst!
Crimes lead one into another; they who
Crimes lead one into another; they who are capable of being forgers are capable of being incendiaries.
Written laws are like spiders' webs, and
Written laws are like spiders' webs, and will, like them, only entangle and hold the poor and weak, while the rich and powerful will easily break through them.
If punishment reaches not the mind and
If punishment reaches not the mind and makes not the will supple, it hardens the offender.
So justice while she winks at crimes,
So justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes.
If it's near dinner-time, the foreman
If it's near dinner-time, the foreman takes out his watch when the jury has retired, and says: "Dear me, gentlemen, ten minutes to five, I declare! I dine at five, gentlemen." "So do I," says everybody else, except two men who ought to have dined at three and seem more than half disposed to stand out in consequence. The foreman smiles, and puts up his watch:--"Well, gentlemen, what do we say, plaintiff or defendant, gentlemen?
