Crime Quote by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

“We have to choose, and for my part I think it a less evil that some criminals should escape than that the government should…

— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr

“Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes reminded us, it is a ‘less evil that some criminals should escape than that the government should play an ignoble…

— Guy Lawson

It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.

— Thomas Jefferson

In a free society, a large degree of human activity is none of the government's business. We should make criminal what's going to hurt…

— Barney Frank

I'm not in favor of the death penalty. But I'm in favor of locking these people away in maximum security units where they can…

— John Grisham

It's a monstrous idea to put people in prison and keep them there.

— Molly Ivins

It is a huge asset to law and order that serious or persistent criminals should be taken out of the society on which they…

— Ann Widdecombe

Imprisoning convicted criminals for longer and longer periods sounds like an appealing and commonsense proposal to many people. After all, when lawbreakers are locked…

— Charlie Kirk

I believe it is wrong to undermine public safety, and indeed public confidence in the concept of human rights, by allowing highly dangerous criminals…

— David Cameron

I have always believed prison can be very, very good for you but not by the act of deprivation of liberty alone. There has…

— Ann Widdecombe

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

— Priti Patel

It is better to prevent crimes than to punish them.

— Cesare Beccaria