Quotes

No man survives when freedom fails. The best men rot in filthy jails, and those who cry 'appease, appease' are hanged by those they tried to please.

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

Corporal punishment falls far more heavily than most weighty pecuniary penalty.

No crime has been without a precedent.

When is conduct a crime, and when is a crime not a crime? When Somebody Up There -- a monarch, a dictator, a Pope, a legislator -- so decrees.

No man should be judge in his own case.

How dreadful it is when the right judge judges wrong.

We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.

I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope.

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

Prosecution I have managed to avoid; but I have been arrested, charged in a police court, have refused to be bound over, and thereupon have been unconditionally released - to my great regret; for I have always wanted to know what going to prison was like.

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

Wicked deeds are generally done, even with impunity, for the mere desire of occupation.

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

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

Prison makes you a better judge of character. You pick up on people much faster.

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

He was a first-time nonviolent possible offender, ... And under the mandatory minimums, he was put in prison for 15 years. Not only does the punishment not fit the crime, but the mandatory minimums don't give judges any discretion to look at the background of the case, to read into the specifics of the case. I don't know a judge who really is in favor of the mandatory minimums.

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

If punishment reaches not the mind and makes not the will supple, it hardens the offender.

And while God had work for Paul, he found him friends both in court and prison. Let persecutors send saints to prison, God can provide a keeper for their turn.

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

Fast closed with double grills
And triple gates – the cell
To wicked souls is hell;
But to a mind that's innocent
'Tis only iron, wood and stone.

Trial by jury itself, instead of being a security to persons who are accused, shall be a delusion, a mockery, and a snare.

The object of punishment is prevention from evil; it never can be made impulsive to good.