Quotes

To seek the redress of grievances by going to law, is like sheep running for shelter to a bramble bush.

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.

Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.

Society has used the juvenile courts to create a caste system where there are throw-away people.

The only effect of public punishment is to show the rabble how bravely it can be borne; and that every one who hath lost a toe-nail hath suffered worse.

We are prisoners of ideas.

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.

Justice is that virtue of the soul which is distributive according to desert.

So justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes.

Why would anyone expect him to come out smarter? He went to prison for three years, not Princeton.

The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.

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.

I have paid no poll-tax for six years. I was put into a jail once on this account, for one night; and, as I stood considering the walls of solid stone, I could not help being struck with the foolishness of that institution which treated me as if I were mere flesh and blood and bones, to be locked up...I saw that, if there was a wall of stone between me and my townsmen, there was a still more difficult one to climb or break through, before they could get to be as free as I was. I did not for a moment feel confined, and the walls seemed a great waste of stone and mortar.

Mere factual innocence is no reason not to carry out a death sentence properly reached.

The only difference between me and my fellow actors is that I've spent more time in jail.

Self is the only prison that can bind the soul.

The world itself is but a large prison, out of which some are daily led to execution.

The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison walls.

Extreme justice is extreme injustice.

We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.

I can work for the Lord in or out of prison.

I just remember that disturbing feeling of walking into that prison, the complete loss of privacy, the complete loss of stimulation, dignity.

Fear can be like a prison. It is, however, a self made prison. Many are imprisoned by fear. No one else can liberate them from this prison. Others may inspire them but they must liberate themselves.

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.