Concepts of justice must have hands and feet to carry out justice in every case in the shortest possible time and the lowest possible cost. That is the challenge to every lawyer and judge in America.
What restrains us from killing is partly fear of punishment, partly moral scruple, and partly what may be described as a sense of humor.
No written law has been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.
Here the great art lies, to discern in what the law is to be to restraint and punishment, and in what things persuasion only is to work.
Every instance of a man's suffering the penalty of the law is an instance of the failure of that penalty in effecting its purpose, which is to deter.
The object of punishment is prevention from evil; it never can be made impulsive to good.
I can work for the Lord in or out of prison.
While crime is punished it yet increases.
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.
If punishment reaches not the mind and makes not the will supple, it hardens the offender.
Body is a home, a prison and a grave.
Overlook our deeds, since you know that crime was absent from our inclination.
To my mind, to kill in war is not a whit better than to commit ordinary murder.
Crime succeeds by sudden despatch; honest counsels gain vigor by delay.
Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.
It is not at the table, but in prison, that you learn who your true friends are.
I just remember that disturbing feeling of walking into that prison, the complete loss of privacy, the complete loss of stimulation, dignity.
Vices are not crimes.
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.
I don't like being famous - it is like a prison. And driving for Ferrari would make it far worse.
In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
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.
Pardon is the virtue of victory.
Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.
You utter a vow, or forge a signature, and you may find yourself bound for life to a monastery, a woman, or prison.
