Quotes

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.

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.

There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.

Every crime has, in the moment of its perpetration, Its own avenging angel--dark misgiving, An ominous sinking at the inmost heart.

Mere factual innocence is no reason not to carry out a death sentence properly reached.

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.

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.

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

The English laws punish vice; the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue.

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.

Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.

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.

Let us remember that justice must be observed even to the lowest.

There is no peace because the making of peace is at least as costly as the making of war - at least as exigent, at least as disruptive, at least as liable to bring disgrace and prison and death in its wake.

I don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there.

The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget.

The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence.

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

To seek the redress of grievances by going to law, is like sheep running for shelter to a bramble bush.

One crime has to be concealed by another.

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.

The public have more interest in the punishment of an injury than he who receives it.

When it comes to freedom, we are but prisoners of our own desires.

I am an expert of electricity. My father occupied the chair of applied electricity at the state prison.

If you want total security, go to prison. There you’re fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking…is freedom.