Trial by jury itself, instead of being a security to persons who are accused, shall be a delusion, a mockery, and a snare.
A man who has no excuse for a crime, is indeed defenseless!
Justice renders to every one his due.
Prison makes you a better judge of character. You pick up on people much faster.
Hard cases, it is said, make bad law.
One crime is everything; two nothing.
Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.
Oh who is that young sinner with the handcuffs on his wrist? And what has he been after that they groan and shake their fists? And wherefore is he wearing such a conscience-stricken air? Oh they're taking him to prison for the colour of his hair.
The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.
Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars.
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 severest justice may not always be the best policy.
I am certain that nothing has done so much to destroy the juridical safeguards of individual freedom as the striving after this mirage of social justice.
No crime has been without a precedent.
If we were brought to trial for the crimes we have committed against ourselves, few would escape the gallows.
Justice is justice though it's always delayed and finally done only by mistake.
Adversities such as being homeless and going to prison has made many people stronger.
A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards, as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push.
I have been studying how I may compare this prison where I live unto the world; Shut up in the prison of their own consciences.
Laws do not persuade just because they threaten.
It becomes not a law-maker to be a law-breaker.
The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.
We have our own system, ... and journalists in our system are not put in prison for embarrassing the government by revealing things the government might not wish to have revealed. The important thing is that our system, under which journalists can write without fear or favor, should continue.
You stuff somebody into the American dream, and it becomes a prison.
