Pardon is the virtue of victory.
Women now have choices. They can be married, not married, have a job, not have a job, be married with children, unmarried with children. Men have the same choice we've always had: work, or prison.
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.
One man meets an infamous punishment for that crime which confers a diadem upon another.
The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear.
In prison, you get the chance to see who really loves you.
The only difference between me and my fellow actors is that I've spent more time in jail.
America is the land of the second chance – and when the gates of the prison open, the path ahead should lead to a better life.
A man who has no excuse for a crime, is indeed defenseless!
No written law has been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.
The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison walls.
Man is condemned to be free.
Prosecution I have managed to avoid; but I have been arrested, charged in a police court, have refused to be bound over, and thereupon have been unconditionally released - to my great regret; for I have always wanted to know what going to prison was like.
Federal prison, if you get any of it, you're going to have to do 85% of it. And the reason why I called it that is because I had a friend who got sent to the federal joint and his whole... it wasn't about him being in jail. He cried about the 85%.
The object of punishment is prevention from evil; it never can be made impulsive to good.
In my country we go to prison first and then become President.
He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
Justice renders to every one his due.
The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.
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.
On a planet that increasingly resembles one huge Maximum Security prison, the only intelligent choice is to plan a jail break.
So justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes.
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?
Wherever any one is against his will, that is to him a prison.
