Accounts Quote by Preston Brooks

You should be held accountable for your actions.

— Rozonda Thomas

I took responsibility for the illegal actions, the potential for violence in my past actions, which I regret.

— Susan Rosenberg

Your honor, throughout this process I've asked the government and the court to hold me and only me accountable for my actions.

— Jesse Jackson, Jr

To be left alone, and face to face with my own crime, had been just retribution.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I don't care if I end up in jail or Guantánamo or whatever, kicked out of a plane with two gunshots in the face.…

— Edward Snowden

My argument is not that I shouldn't have been punished, but that the punishment didn't fit the crime.

— Kevin Mitnick

My detention has been worth every second if only to prove my innocence to those who truly matter most my countrymen.

— Joseph Estrada

To have once been a criminal is no disgrace. To remain a criminal is the disgrace

— Malcolm X

Let no guilty man escape, if it can he avoided. . . . No personal consideration should stand in the way of performing a public duty.

— Ulysses S. Grant

What a disgrace! Who do I feel sorry for? Smashed and raped! Not again. This is a real crime.

— Korn

To destroy an offender cannot benefit society so much as to redeem him.

— L. Frank Baum

Obviously, following my convictions has come at a personal price, but they are important enough that I have been willing to endure the abuse.

— Frederick Lenz