So justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes.
The worst prison is not of stone. It is of a throbbing heart, outraged by an infamous life.
It is impossible to go through life without trust: That is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.
Well, I don't think prisons are the answer to everything, obviously.
Pardon is the virtue of victory.
One crime has to be concealed by another.
There are dreadful punishments enacted against thieves; but it were much better to make such good provisions, by which every man might be put in a method how to live, and so to be preserved from the fatal necessity of stealing and dying for it.
I am an expert of electricity. My father occupied the chair of applied electricity at the state prison.
Those magistrates who can prevent crime, and do not, in effect encourage it.
The guilt of enforced crimes lies on those who impose them.
A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space.
While crime is punished it yet increases.
We shall fight against them, throw them in prisons and destroy them.
No obligation to justice does force a man to be cruel, or to use the sharpest sentence.
Only free men can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts.
Justice is justice though it's always delayed and finally done only by mistake.
Money will determine whether the accused goes to prison or walks out of the courtroom a free man.
Self is the only prison that can bind the soul.
History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.
We who live in prison, and in whose lives there is no event but sorrow, have to measure time by throbs of pain, and the record of bitter moments.
A man who has no excuse for a crime, is indeed defenseless!
It is hard, but it is excellent, to find the right knowledge of when correction is necessary and when grace doth most avail.
Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except for the imminent threat of release.
Wicked deeds are generally done, even with impunity, for the mere desire of occupation.
Steal goods and you’ll go to prison, steal lands and you are a king.
