Will Rogers Quotes

I can raise more hell in jail than out.

Let there be convenient cages for the committing of unruly vagrants in every ward.

Bad people should be incarcerated.

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

I urge the citizens of Ferguson who have been peacefully exercising their First Amendment rights to join with law enforcement in condemning the actions of looters, vandals and others seeking to inflame tensions and sow discord.

Let the punishments of criminals be useful. A hanged man is good for nothing; a man condemned to public works still serves the country, and is a living lesson.

I was gladly cuffed, shackled, loaded into the caged bus and driven through the main gate of Bare Hill Correctional Facility for what I pray to God will be forever.

If you want to act like a butthead, your butt is going to get locked up.

Thieves must sit in prison.

Even when the State does good things, it finally rests on a club, a gun, or a prison, for its power to carry them through.

Non-violence implies voluntary submission to the penalty for non-cooperation with evil.

The Bill was talked out! Peaceful methods had failed…. As the year 1905 went on, the Liberal leaders counted upon early political office. Manchester – the Free Trade Hall – was again to be the scene of a rally at which the Liberal Party would utter their war cry for the General Election. Here was my chance! Now there should be an act the effect of which would remain, a protest not of word but of deed. Prison this time! Prison would mean a fact that could not fade from the record.

I'd rather lock somebody up and throw away the key and put them in hard labor, the ultimate penalty that the law will allow, but I'm opposed to the death penalty

All of us have made mistakes in our lives, but only some of us have had to pay for the mistakes. [By going to jail.]

I really don't like being in jail.

Taking the game away is probably the closest thing to jail that I'll get to.

I think it is extremely inappropriate for people to be blocking traffic, to be harassing people going about their everyday business and violating the law. I do not support that kind of behavior.

Sirens wailed; the revolution had come to Harrisonville. Blood was flowing on Pearl Street.

I am deeply worried because we are seeing an unleashing of violence by 2,000 to 3,000 thugs who come to smash and loot. My objective is to avoid mistakes by the police, so that people can protest in safety.

I mean, what is prison, really, except a good bar without the liquor?

"This is now the twelfth day of rioting in France. They have been rioting for almost two weeks. And France has still not surrendered. That's like a record.

While crime is punished it yet increases.

An uprising of the reasonable is our only chance.

Nobody should be allowed to burn the American flag - if they do, there must be consequences - perhaps loss of citizenship or year in jail!

The right of the people to peacefully assemble and petition their government for a redress of grievances is now worth a pitcher of warm spit. That's because TV will not come and treat it respectfully. Television is really something.