Fear follows crime, and is its punishment

Fear follows crime, and is its punishment

Many a man spanks his children for the things his own father should have spanked out of him.

Many a man spanks his children for the things his own father should have spanked out of him.

Men simply copied the realities of their hearts when they built prisons

Men simply copied the realities of their hearts when they built prisons

My object all sublime
I shall achieve in time--
To let the punishment fit the crime.

My object all sublime
I shall achieve in time--
To let the punishment fit the crime.

Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for
in the image of God made he read more

Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for
in the image of God made he man.

I stew all night in my own grease.

I stew all night in my own grease.

Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime.

Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime.

The punishment which the wise suffer, who refuse to take part in government, is to live under the government of read more

The punishment which the wise suffer, who refuse to take part in government, is to live under the government of worse men

And if a man cause a blemish in his neighbour; as he hath done,
so shall it be done read more

And if a man cause a blemish in his neighbour; as he hath done,
so shall it be done to him;
Breach for breach, eye for eye, tooth for tooth: as he hath
caused a blemish in a man, so shall it be done to him again.