Sol Wachtler Quotes

People who commit crimes should be responsible for those crimes. It doesn't matter whether they're priests or ministers or atheists.

There is one system of justice, demanding that all be held accountable when laws are broken.

Wrong doing must be punished. If not, it will proliferate until anarchy wears the robes of tolerance and understanding.

Nothing of course was ever done to Bill for the killing of Tutt.

We don't want crimes committed in New Mexico falling through the cracks. This legislation ensures that there is no area of our state where crimes can be committed without consequence.

He has committed the crime who profits by it.

Good laws are the offspring of bad actions.

Criminals are not the victims of society; society is the victim of criminals.

if you do countenance those that are transgressors of the law you are in the same fact.

In all governments fear is recognized as one of the grounds for the enforcement of law. In even the freest nations and under the highest form of civilization the public opinion that administers law makes its demand partly in the interest of essential right, partly with the instinct of self-preservation against the forces of evil, and partly for the punishment of wrong. Punishment in itself is not reformatory; it is retributive; it is deterrent; it plays upon fear.

The law makes ten criminals where it restrains one.

A judge who cannot punish, associates himself in the end with the criminal.

As a judge, I held people accountable when they did wrong. That's why I cracked down on violent criminals and stopped the big banks when they tried to kick families out of their homes.

I will ensure that no criminal will ever get any political protection in my government. If anyone takes law in his hands, he would not be spared.

There must be real consequences for those who commit crimes in our neighborhoods.

In 'Maatr,' we do not justify taking the law into our hands. That's not the right thing to do. We are not promoting that.

It is obviously sensible the crossing of a border ought not to protect a criminal from the consequences of his crime.

If the desire to kill and the opportunity to kill came always together, who would escape hanging?

Every state and the federal government have laws that protect people from acts of violence, and those laws should be enforced. What I want to see in America is that if you hurt a human being and you bring pain in their life, that's all we need to know. If you did it illegally, you should be prosecuted.

Nothing so upholds the laws as the punishment of persons whose rank is as great as their crime.

What do sad complaints avail if the offense is not cut down by punishment.

The purpose of the law is not to prevent a future offense, but to punish the one actually committed.

Hillary Clinton should have been prosecuted and gone to jail.

You kill men for the wrongs they have done, not the wrongs that they may do someday.

And where the offense is, let the great axe fall.