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Crime Quotes
"He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it."
79
"A jury of my countrymen, it is true, have found me guilty of the crime of which I stood indicted. For this I entertain not the slightest feeling of resentment towards them."
43
"Poverty is like punishment for a crime you didn't commit."
32
"Crime is an overhead you have to pay if you want to live in the city."
30
"The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual crime."
29
"If, at the limit, you can rule without crime, you cannot do so without injustices."
26
"Rather leave the crime of the guilty unpunished than condemn the innocent."
20
"There's a simple way to solve the crime problem: obey the law; punish those who do not."
18
"The cure for crime is not the electric chair, but the high chair."
15
"It is a crime against the State to be powerful enough to commit one."
15
"Murder is not the crime of criminals, but that of law-abiding citizens."
13
"He told us he was going to take crime out of the streets. He did. He took it into the damn White House."
13
"Crime butchers innocence to secure a throne, and innocence struggles with all its might against the attempts of crime."
12
"All I can really say is it's bloodier than hell. In this one I'm going to be much more direct and honest in my description of the actual killings and the crime scene."
12
"But I must think that an address to his majesty to remove one of his servants, without so much as alleging any particular crime against him, is one of the greatest encroachments that was ever made upon the prerogatives of the crown."
12
"Under current law, there is no additional penalty for someone who enters the United States illegally and then commits either a crime of violence or a drug trafficking offense. They simply come under the same penalty as we have in current law."
12
"There are crimes that are truly uncomely. With crimes, whatever they may be, the more blood, the more horror there is, the more imposing they are, the more picturesque, so to speak, but there are crimes that are shameful, disgraceful, all horror aside, so to speak, even far too ungracious..."
12
"Once I've done a crime, I just forget it. I go from crime to crime."
11
"I think there's a lot of naivete and hubris within our mix of personalities. That's probably our worst crime. I keep wondering what a "mature" record means."
11
"If we believe in our current penal process, then the penalties imposed by judges and juries should be the only sanctions for one's crime, not the invisible sanctions of the legislature."
11
"Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the criminal."
11
"To err is human; but contrition felt for the crime distinguishes the virtuous from the wicked."
11
"I was long brought up to think that it was nothing short of a crime to miss a sale."
11
"In fact, street gangs are the primary distributor of illegal drugs in the United States."
11
"It is the crime not the scaffold which is the disgrace."
11
"If we were really tough on crime, we'd do more to stop it from happening in the first place."
10
"Powerful states can maintain themselves only by crime, little states are virtuous only by weakness."
10
"What becomes a crime deserving capital punishment when the tables are turned is a matter of small moment when the negro woman is the accusing party."
10
"Killing someone is the ultimate crime, while on the other hand, killing someone in uniform is fulfillment of duty."
10
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