William Tecumseh Sherman Quotes

Maybe I won't stay out of prison. Who knows?

He [Richard M. Nixon] told us he was going to take crime out of the streets. He did. He took it into the damn White House.

Our democracy has been marred by imperialism.

I asked a man in prison once how he happened to be there and he said he had stolen a pair of shoes. I told him if he had stolen a railroad he would be a United States Senator

I don't know why we need so many more prisons when the crooks seem so happy in the Senate.

There is not a single man in prison today who does not claim to be an ardent patriot

In the ultimate analysis, only the jury can strip a man of his liberty or his life.

Right outside of Kansas City is Leavenworth, and there are, like, five prisons there. It was kind of the tapestry of my childhood. I was always fascinated. I wanted to know what was behind those walls.

In my country we go to prison first and then become President.

Some times I think this whole world Is one big prison yeard Some of us are prisoners The rest of us are guards

The last place I would ever want to go is prison.

I'm in prison. But my heart and mind is free. Gangsta haters on the streets are doing more time than me. They need 30 police escorts with them every time they walk down the street.

I think very poorly of United Russia. United Russia is the party of corruption, the party of crooks and thieves.

I mean I've never been thrown in jail in New York or Los Angeles.

So for you people who are filled with fear that I might someday be released: breathe easy, I don't see it happening.

Yeah, I've gotten a few letters from prison.

I should still be in jail.

I shot a couple of movies in jail, but I was never in jail.

It shouldn't take extreme courage and a willingness to go to prison for decades or even life to blow the whistle on bad government acts done in secret. But it does. And that is an immense problem for democracy, one that all journalists should be united in fighting.

Government by blackmail is incompatible with democracy.

I'm a prosecutor first and foremost, and as a judge, I put people in jail for extended periods of time when that was appropriate.

And I also thought that Richard Nixon was the greatest political education we have ever had, but it looks like we need to relearn them again.

Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except for the imminent threat of release.

The Department of Justice should never be reduced to a political arm of the White House.

I had never believed that I would go to jail.