I don't like jail, they got the wrong
I don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there.
It is hard, but it is excellent, to find
It is hard, but it is excellent, to find the right knowledge of when correction is necessary and when grace doth most avail.
If it's near dinner-time, the foreman
If it's near dinner-time, the foreman takes out his watch when the jury has retired, and says: "Dear me, gentlemen, ten minutes to five, I declare! I dine at five, gentlemen." "So do I," says everybody else, except two men who ought to have dined at three and seem more than half disposed to stand out in consequence. The foreman smiles, and puts up his watch:--"Well, gentlemen, what do we say, plaintiff or defendant, gentlemen?
We're in a war. People who blast some
We're in a war. People who blast some pot on a casual basis are guilty of treason.
Nor stony tower, nor walls of beaten
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.
While crime is punished it yet
While crime is punished it yet increases.
A just chastisement may benefit a man,
A just chastisement may benefit a man, though it seldom does; but an unjust one changes all his blood to gall.
Do not lay on the multitude the blame
Do not lay on the multitude the blame that is due to a few.
Kill a man, and you are an assassin.
Kill a man, and you are an assassin. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill everyone, and you are a God.
As we grow in wisdom, we pardon more
As we grow in wisdom, we pardon more freely.
The object of punishment is prevention
The object of punishment is prevention from evil; it never can be made impulsive to good.
Clemency alone makes us equal to the
Clemency alone makes us equal to the gods.
Nelson Mandela and Malcolm X came out of
Nelson Mandela and Malcolm X came out of prison stronger.
The severest justice may not always be
The severest justice may not always be the best policy.
In prison, you get the chance to see who
In prison, you get the chance to see who really loves you.
The world is a prison in which solitary
The world is a prison in which solitary confinement is preferable.
Organized crime in America takes in over
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.
So justice while she winks at crimes,
So justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes.
One of the many lessons that one learns
One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.
Laws do not persuade just because they
Laws do not persuade just because they threaten.
Forgiveness, that noblest of all
Forgiveness, that noblest of all self-denial, is a virtue which he alone who can practise in himself can willingly believe in another.
The most anxious man in a prison is the
The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.
I existed in a world that never is - the
I existed in a world that never is - the prison of the mind.
No man survives when freedom fails. The
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.
To be in prison so long, it's difficult
To be in prison so long, it's difficult to remember exactly what you did to get there.