All crime is a kind of disease and should be treated as such.

All crime is a kind of disease and should be treated as such.

Organized crime constitutes nothing less than a guerilla war against society.

Organized crime constitutes nothing less than a guerilla war against society.

We enact many laws that manufacture criminals, and then a few that punish them.

We enact many laws that manufacture criminals, and then a few that punish them.

Nor all that heralds rake from coffin'd clay,
Nor florid prose, nor honied lies of rhyme,
Can read more

Nor all that heralds rake from coffin'd clay,
Nor florid prose, nor honied lies of rhyme,
Can blazon evil deeds, or consecrate a crime.

And who are the greater criminals--those who sell the instruments of death, or those who buy them and use them?

And who are the greater criminals--those who sell the instruments of death, or those who buy them and use them?

By his own verdict no guilty man was ever acquitted.
[Lat., Se judice, nemo nocens absolvitur.]

By his own verdict no guilty man was ever acquitted.
[Lat., Se judice, nemo nocens absolvitur.]

If you do big things they print your face, and if you do little things they print only your thumbs.

If you do big things they print your face, and if you do little things they print only your thumbs.

Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.

Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.

He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.

He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.