I'm all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults.

A crowded police court docket is the surest sign that trade is brisk and money plenty.

What man was ever content with one crime?

Man punishes the action, but God the intention.

Punishment is a sort of medicine.

The more religious a country is, the more crimes are committed in it.

To live outside the law you must be honest.  

In its function, the power to punish is not essentially different from that of curing or educating.

No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes.

I’ve got some shit I’m conservative about and some shit I’m liberal about. Crime—I’m conservative. Prostitution—I’m liberal.

There is no crime without precedent. 

The criminal is the creative artist; the detective only the critic.

Our crime against criminals is that we treat them as villains.