No crime has been without a precedent.
Overlook our deeds, since you know that crime was absent from our inclination.
I can work for the Lord in or out of prison.
I don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there.
Mere factual innocence is no reason not to carry out a death sentence properly reached.
Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.
What is crime amongst the multitude, is only vice among the few.
When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff.
One crime is everything; two nothing.
While we have prisons it matters little which of us occupy the cells.
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.
The severest justice may not always be the best policy.
Virtue pardons the wicked, as the sandal-tree perfumes the axe which strikes it.
On average, drug prisoners spend more time in federal prison than rapists, who often get out on early release because of the overcrowding in prison caused by the Drug War.
In prison, you get the chance to see who really loves you.
When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff.
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 penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence.
We are prisoners of ideas.
As we grow in wisdom, we pardon more freely.
In prisons, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all.
In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
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.
