Quotations on Prison

There are not enough jails, not enough policemen, not enough courts to enforce a law not supported by the people.

~ Hubert H. Humphrey

Americans, indeed all freemen, remember that in the final choice, a soldier's pack is not so heavy a burden as a prisoner's chains.

~ Dwight D. Eisenhower

The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.

~ Clarence Darrow

I hear much of people's calling out to punish the guilty, but very few are concerned to clear the innocent.

~ Daniel Defoe

The more laws the more offenders.

~ Dr. Thomas Fuller