Phil Gramm Quotes

In the end, crime doesn't pay.

The message has to be sent that if you commit a crime there has to be punishment.

Pardon one offence and you encourage the commission of many.

There is no justice if wrongdoers go unpunished and victims do not feel avenged.

Murder may pass unpunishd for a time, But tardy justice will oertake the crime.

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

Fear follows crime and is its punishment.

One thing I was thinking about is that they probably get their come-uppance about the same percentage that people in real life do. Basically, stealing for all practical purposes might as well be legal in New York.

It is the crime not the scaffold which is the disgrace.

Punishment is justice for the unjust.

Shall any man be above Justice. Above all shall that man be above it, who can commit the most extensive injustice. When great crimes were committed I am for punishing the principal as well as the Coadjutors

The most malign of all these dangers today is disregard and disobedience of law. Crime is increasing. Confidence in rigid and speedy justice is decreasing.

If we started prosecuting people for sin, we’d all be in jail.

As to the thief, male or female cut off his or her hands.

Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent.

All judges had rather that ten innocent should suffer than that one guilty should escape

From this window we see the palace where the King is misled by perfidious counsels. Terror and fear have often issued from yon palace: let them return to-day in the name of the law, and let all those who inhabit that palace know that the King is alone inviolable, that the law will strike down the guilty without respect of persons, and that there is not a guilty head which can escape its sword.

The net of law is spread so wide, No sinner from its sweep may hide. Its meshes are so fine and strong They take in every child of wrong. O wondrous web of mystery ! Big fish alone escape from thee !

Granting amnesty to those who willfully broke the law makes a mockery of our legal system and encourages even more lawlessness - potentially more severe crimes than entering the U.S. illegally.

What pleases us is that people are realising that punishment is inevitable for those who don't respect the law.

I think crime is probably driven more by morality than anything else.

Crime and punishment grow out of one stem.

But the guilty person is only one of the targets of punishment. For punishment is directed above all at others, at all the potentially guilty.

He who leaves a fault unpunished invites crime.

The hope of impunity is the greatest inducement to do wrong.