"Crimes lead into one another. They who are capable of being forgers, are capable of being incendiaries."
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"A country is in a bad state, which is governed only by laws; because a thousand things occur for which laws cannot provide, and where authority ought to interpose."
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"One crime has to be concealed by another."
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"It is only after slavery and prison that the sweetest appreciation of freedom can come."
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"The punishment can be remitted; the crime is everlasting."
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"Where crime is taught from early years, it becomes a part of nature."
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"Every crime destroys more Edens than our own"
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"I did almost a year in prison, a year in prison, just because my name is Foxy Brown."
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"I have never regarded any man as my superior, either in my life outside or inside prison."
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"Justice renders to every one his due."
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"When you live your whole life in a prison freedom can be so dull"
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"Imprisonment is as irrevocable as death."
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"Do not reveal, if liberty is precious to you; my face is the prison of love."
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"The least I can do is speak out for the hundreds of chimpanzees who, right now, sit hunched, miserable and without hope, staring out with dead eyes from their metal prisons. They cannot speak for themselves."
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"I say that you cannot administer a wicked law impartially. You can only destroy. You can only punish. I warn you that a wicked law, like cholera, destroys everyone it touches - its upholders as well as its defiers."
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"What I'm really trying to say is that I believed an armed insurrection could work. After I was shot and went to prison, that ended that illusion. I had time to think."
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"What would happen if we financed somebody in the U.S. to destabilize the government of George W. Bush? They would go to prison, certainly."
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"Prison is a Socialist paradise where equality prevails, everything is supplied, and competition is eliminated."
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"Carelessness about our security is dangerous, carelessness about our freedom is also dangerous."
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"Reality is a prison, where one vegetates and always will."
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