I asked a man in prison once how he happened to be there and he said he had stolen a pair of shoes. I told him if he had stolen a railroad he would be a United States Senator.
It is impossible to go through life without trust: That is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.
In prison, you get the chance to see who really loves you.
Crime succeeds by sudden despatch; honest counsels gain vigor by delay.
They took away my money, my family, and my security. Why couldn't they destroy my ideas? We will question them in court tomorrow as we trigger The Revolution of all revolutions!
I can work for the Lord in or out of prison.
There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.
When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff.
A country is in a bad state, which is governed only by laws; because a thousand things occur for which laws cannot provide, and where authority ought to interpose.
Well, I don't think prisons are the answer to everything, obviously.
A man who has no excuse for a crime, is indeed defenseless!
Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our duty is to furnish it well.
I just remember that disturbing feeling of walking into that prison, the complete loss of privacy, the complete loss of stimulation, dignity.
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.
No written law has been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.
No matter how you seem to fatten on a crime, that can never be good for the bee which is bad for the hive.
You utter a vow, or forge a signature, and you may find yourself bound for life to a monastery, a woman, or prison.
We shall fight against them, throw them in prisons and destroy them.
When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff.
One crime has to be concealed by another.
Reality becomes a prison to those who can’t get out of it.
It is hard, but it is excellent, to find the right knowledge of when correction is necessary and when grace doth most avail.
It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.
No crime has been without a precedent.
As we grow in wisdom, we pardon more freely.
