Jail Quotes

637 quotes by 498 authors

[democrats] hated Richard Nixon, and no wonder. It was Nixon who sent Alger Hiss to jail, and Nixon who waged the Vietnam War after the… — David Frum
Government is not capable of caring. Government gets things done through coercion. They fine, they penalize, they tax, they confiscate, they jail, they bully to… — Rush Limbaugh
There are more Negroes in jail with me than there are on the voting rolls. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
If you seek violence, we will seek to put you in jail. — Ed Koch
A man cannot free himself by any self-denying ordinances, neither by water nor potatoes, nor by violent possibilities, by refusing to swear, refusing to pay… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Jefferson thought schools would produce free men: we prove him right by putting dropouts in jail. — Benjamin Barber
My dad went to jail for a long time. We lost everything, and the situation never resolved itself. My parents had this sort of passionate,… — Natalia Kills
Crimes were committed to punish crimes, and crimes were committed to prevent crimes. The world has been filled with prisons and dungeons, with chains and… — Robert Green Ingersoll
Your notions of friendship are new to me; I believe every man is born with his quantum, and he cannot give to one without robbing… — Jonathan Swift
I don't know how a judge can concentrate on being fair and impartial when he or she is faced with possible jail time for making… — Sandra Day O'Connor
Forty years ago, we were on the tail of the Front Page era. There was a different point of view. Reporters and editors were more… — Mike Royko
Jail doesn't teach anyone to do good, nor Siberia, but a man-yes! A man can teach another man to do good-believe me! — Maxim Gorky
To long for that which comes not. To lie a-bed and sleep not. To serve well and please not. To have a horse that goes… — John Florio
We're rapidly approaching a world comprised entirely of jail and shopping. — Douglas Coupland
In Vietnam we have no political prisoners. No one is arrested or jailed for his or her speech or point of view. They are put… — Nong ?uc Manh
Cop comes down the street crazy as a loon, he throws us in jail for carrying harpoons. — Bob Dylan
I think there is a heritage which I'm proud of, which is a fight for democracy, a fight for social justice, a fight for freedom.… — George Papandreou
I don't trust Santa Barbara as far as I can spit. I am afraid that if I went back there, it's possible that I could… — Randy Quaid
All of North Korea is a jail. — Kim Young-sam
I shot a couple of movies in jail, but I was never in jail. — Tom Sizemore

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