Quotes

Crimes lead one into another; they who are capable of being forgers are capable of being incendiaries.

A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards, as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push.

Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future lives and crimes to society.

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

Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except for the imminent threat of release.

Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.

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.

One man meets an infamous punishment for that crime which confers a diadem upon another.

Steal goods and you’ll go to prison, steal lands and you are a king.

Virtue pardons the wicked, as the sandal-tree perfumes the axe which strikes it.

Laws do not persuade just because they threaten.

To be in prison so long, it's difficult to remember exactly what you did to get there.

A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.

A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space.

If it's near dinner-time, the foreman takes out his watch when the jury has retired, and says: "Dear me, gentlemen, ten minutes to five, I declare! I dine at five, gentlemen." "So do I," says everybody else, except two men who ought to have dined at three and seem more than half disposed to stand out in consequence. The foreman smiles, and puts up his watch:--"Well, gentlemen, what do we say, plaintiff or defendant, gentlemen?

There are only two places in the world where time takes precedence over the job to be done. School and prison.

I never saw a man who looked With such a wistful eye Upon that little tent of blue Which prisoners call the sky.

Punishment, that is the justice for the unjust.

You utter a vow, or forge a signature, and you may find yourself bound for life to a monastery, a woman, or prison.

In my country we go to prison first and then become President.

Those magistrates who can prevent crime, and do not, in effect encourage it.

A sick person is a prisoner.

Nor cell, nor chain, nor dungeon speaks to the murderer like the voice of solitude.

We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business.

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.