Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.
Crimes lead one into another; they who are capable of being forgers are capable of being incendiaries.
Vices are not crimes.
When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff.
Forgiveness, that noblest of all self-denial, is a virtue which he alone who can practise in himself can willingly believe in another.
The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear.
It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.
Man is condemned to be free.
When it comes to freedom, we are but prisoners of our own desires.
Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.
The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget.
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.
He who profits by a crime commits it.
Justice renders to every one his due.
In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
Law is merely the expression of the will of the strongest for the time being, and therefore laws have no fixity, but shift from generation to generation.
There are few better measures of the concern a society has for its individual members and its own well being than the way it handles criminals.
A variety in punishment is of utility, as well as a proportion.
Justice is justice though it's always delayed and finally done only by mistake.
The best situation of all, and one frequently utilized, is for jails and prisons to allow volunteer ministers of all faiths to enter prisons and offer their services to the inmates who want them. That way, the religious needs of inmates are met but without government funds being spent.
It is better that ten guilty persons escape, than that one innocent suffer.
He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.
If you share the crime of your friend, you make it your own.
There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.
So justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes.
