Quotes

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

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

To trial bring her stolen charms, and let her prison be my arms.

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

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.

I existed in a world that never is - the prison of the mind.

It is hard, but it is excellent, to find the right knowledge of when correction is necessary and when grace doth most avail.

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

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

Experts and the educated elite have replaced what worked with what sounded good. Society was far more civilized before they took over our schools, prisons, welfare programs, police departments and courts. It's high time we ran these people out of our lives and went back to common sense.

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.

While crime is punished it yet increases.

Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.

No man should be judge in his own case.

The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear.

If we were brought to trial for the crimes we have committed against ourselves, few would escape the gallows.

Pardon is the virtue of victory.

One crime has to be concealed by another.

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

We shall fight against them, throw them in prisons and destroy them.

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.

Well, I don't think prisons are the answer to everything, obviously.

It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.

I don't like being famous - it is like a prison. And driving for Ferrari would make it far worse.