No crime has been without a precedent.
Crimes lead one into another; they who are capable of being forgers are capable of being incendiaries.
While we have prisons it matters little which of us occupy the cells.
It is safer that a bad man should not be accused, than that he should be acquitted.
One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.
The only effect of public punishment is to show the rabble how bravely it can be borne; and that every one who hath lost a toe-nail hath suffered worse.
If we look at Houston, which is a very environmentally toxic place, we find that it has one of the highest levels of young men going to prison and also among the highest levels of illiteracy in the country.
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
Steal goods and you’ll go to prison, steal lands and you are a king.
Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.
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.
Shyness is the prison of the heart.
No written law has been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.
Trial by jury itself, instead of being a security to persons who are accused, shall be a delusion, a mockery, and a snare.
The guilt of enforced crimes lies on those who impose them.
We're in a war. People who blast some pot on a casual basis are guilty of treason.
A man who has no excuse for a crime, is indeed defenseless!
A just chastisement may benefit a man, though it seldom does; but an unjust one changes all his blood to gall.
Wherever any one is against his will, that is to him a prison.
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.
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.
One man meets an infamous punishment for that crime which confers a diadem upon another.
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.
The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison walls.
The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.
