Quotes

Money will determine whether the accused goes to prison or walks out of the courtroom a free man.

Hanging was the worst use a man could be put to.

Crimes generally punish themselves.

Nor stony tower, nor walls of beaten brass, Nor airless dungeon, nor strong links of iron, Can be retentive to the strength of spirit; But life, being weary of these worldly bars, Never lacks power to dismiss itself.

You stuff somebody into the American dream, and it becomes a prison.

It is better that ten guilty persons escape, than that one innocent suffer.

When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff.

Punishment, that is the justice for the unjust.

I was put into jail as I was going to the shoemaker's to get a shoe which was mended. When I was let out the next morning, I proceeded to finish my errand, and, having put on my mended shoe, joined a huckleberry party, who were impatient to put themselves under my conduct; and in half an hour -- for the horse was soon tackled -- was in the midst of a huckleberry field, on one of our highest hills, two miles off, and then the State was nowhere to be seen.

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.

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

One crime is everything; two nothing.

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

In a civilized society, all crimes are likely to be sins, but most sins are not and ought not to be treated as crimes.

Written laws are like spiders' webs, and will, like them, only entangle and hold the poor and weak, while the rich and powerful will easily break through them.

Women have worked hard; starved in prison; given of their time and lives that we might sit in the House of Commons and take part in the legislating of this country.

The object of punishment is prevention from evil; it never can be made impulsive to good.

Whatever you think of de Sade, he was a complex figure and we should not look for easy answers with him. He was, strangely perhaps, against the death penalty, and he was never put in prison for murders or anything like that.

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.

When is conduct a crime, and when is a crime not a crime? When Somebody Up There -- a monarch, a dictator, a Pope, a legislator -- so decrees.

Extreme justice is extreme injustice.

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.

We shall not yield to violence. We shall not be deprived of union freedoms. We shall never agree with sending people to prison for their convictions.

It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.