Compassion Quote by Gerald R. Ford

Can a free people restrain crime without sacrificing fundamental liberties and a heritage of compassion?... Let us show that we can temper together those…

— Gerald R. Ford

Finally, is not liberty the restricting of the law only to its rational sphere of organizing the right of the individual to lawful self-defense;…

— Frederic Bastiat

We cannot lightly allow the perpetrator of a serious crime to go free simply because that person believed his actions were reasonable and necessary…

— Sol Wachtler

Why on earth would free people remain prisoners in a cage of absurd laws and regulation, with rigid constraints that humiliate the true needs…

— Matteo Salvini

Let no man think we can deny civil liberty to others and retain it for ourselves. When zealous agents of the Government arrest suspected…

— Robert M. La Follette, Sr

We do not need to get good laws to restrain bad people. We need to get good people to restrain us from bad laws.

— Anonymous

Without justice being freely, fully, and impartially administered, neither our persons, nor our rights, nor our property, can be protected. And if these, or…

— Joseph Story

Locking people up without reducing the risk of them committing new crimes against new victims the minute they get out does not make for…

— Kenneth Clarke

“There are doubtless those who would wish to lock up all those who suspected of terrorist and other serious offences and, in the time-honored…

— Tom Bingham

It's time to stop locking people up for victimless crimes.

— Kat Timpf

It is better, so the Fourth Amendment teaches us, that the guilty sometimes go free than the citizens be subject to easy arrest.

— William O. Douglas

Crime and violence are a threat to the freedom and liberty people should enjoy and to our orderly way of life.

— Priti Patel