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.

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.

I am mortified to be told that, in the United States of America, the sale of a book can become read more

I am mortified to be told that, in the United States of America, the sale of a book can become a subject of inquiry, and of criminal inquiry too.

There's not a crime
But takes its proper change out still in crime
If once rung on read more

There's not a crime
But takes its proper change out still in crime
If once rung on the counter of this world.

Obviously crime pays, or there'd be no crime.

Obviously crime pays, or there'd be no crime.

It is grievous to be caught.
[Lat., Deprendi miserum est.]

It is grievous to be caught.
[Lat., Deprendi miserum est.]

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

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

'Tis no sin love's fruits to steal;
But the sweet thefts to reveal;
To be taken, to read more

'Tis no sin love's fruits to steal;
But the sweet thefts to reveal;
To be taken, to be seen,
These have crimes accounted been.

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

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