Quotes

The contagion of crime is like that of the plague. Criminals collected together corrupt each other; they are worse than ever when at the termination of their punishment they re-enter society.

Man is condemned to be free.

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

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!

The worst prison is not of stone. It is of a throbbing heart, outraged by an infamous life.

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

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.

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.

Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law.

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.

I was in prison, and you came unto me. Verily I say unto you, inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.
~(Jesus Christ) Matthew 25:36, 40

The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.

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

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.

It is safer that a bad man should not be accused, than that he should be acquitted.

He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.

The best situation of all, and one frequently utilized, is for jails and prisons to allow volunteer ministers of all faiths to enter prisons and offer their services to the inmates who want them. That way, the religious needs of inmates are met but without government funds being spent.

There are few better measures of the concern a society has for its individual members and its own well being than the way it handles criminals.

Organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year. This is quite a profitable sum, especially when one considers that the Mafia spends very little for office supplies.

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

To my mind, to kill in war is not a whit better than to commit ordinary murder.

No matter how you seem to fatten on a crime, that can never be good for the bee which is bad for the hive.

I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.

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

He who profits by a crime commits it.