We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of read more

We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business.

Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law.

Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law.

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

I never killed anybody, I never raped anybody, I never committed no crimes that weren't honorable.

I never killed anybody, I never raped anybody, I never committed no crimes that weren't honorable.

But many a crime deemed innocent on earth
Is registered in Heaven; and these no doubt
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But many a crime deemed innocent on earth
Is registered in Heaven; and these no doubt
Have each their record, with a curse annex'd.

Purposelessness is the fruitful mother of crime.

Purposelessness is the fruitful mother of crime.

Providence sees to it that no man gets happiness out of crime.

Providence sees to it that no man gets happiness out of crime.

The crime and not the scaffold makes the shame.
[Fr., Le crime fait la honte et non pas l'echafaud.]

The crime and not the scaffold makes the shame.
[Fr., Le crime fait la honte et non pas l'echafaud.]

A man who has no excuse for a crime, is indeed defenceless!

A man who has no excuse for a crime, is indeed defenceless!