Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [261-280] of 284 Crime quotesCrime QuotesCrime Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes [T]hroughout history the unarmed have been safe only as long as the armed (criminals or government agents) have allowed them to be safe. We should beware of any politician, bureaucrat, or intellectual who claims the Second Amendment is outdated, or that it does no more than guarantee the National guard’s right to bear arms. Many of these same people did their best to obstruct investigations of government wrongdoing at Ruby Ridge and Waco.~ William R. Tonso What is considered sinful in one of the great religions to which citizens belong isn't necessarily sinful in the others. Criminal law therefore cannot be based on the notion of sin; it is crimes that it must define.~ Pierre Trudeau Obviously, the state's responsibility should be to legislate rules for a well-ordered society. It has no right or duty to creep into the bedrooms of the nation.~ Pierre Trudeau We enact many laws that manufacture criminals, and then a few that punish them.~ Benjamin R. Tucker We have a criminal jury system which is superior to any in the world; and its efficiency is only marred by the difficulty of finding twelve men every day who don't know anything and can't read.~ Mark Twain There is no distinctly native American criminal class save Congress.~ Mark Twain The worst penalties are always imposed on those seeking to help the oppressed.~ Unknown Using the power of the law to ensure that the law abiding are at the mercy of the lawless is an act of barbarism beyond the realms of logic. The dreamers and fools who force us to endure the carnage should be on trial along with the criminals they are creating.The world is not made more civil by forcing the civilized to be the victims of the predators. How dare you, any of you, refuse good law abiding citizens the right to defend themselves in a country where there were 25,000 murders, 105,000 reported rapes, and 975,000 armed robberies LAST YEAR?~ Lon VanOstran The tragedy of the police state is that it always regards all opposition as a crime, and there are no degrees.~ Robert Gilbert Vansittart The prohibition of drugs causes crime. You don’t have to legalize, just decriminalize it.~ Jesse Ventura It is not conclusive proof of a doctrine’s correctness that its adversaries use the police, the hangman, and violent mobs to fight it. But it is a proof of the fact that those taking recourse to violent oppression are in their subconscious convinced of the untenability of their own doctrines.~ Ludwig Von Mises There's no greater threat to our independence, to our cherished freedoms and personal liberties than the continual, relentless injection of these insidious poisons into our system. We must decide whether we cherish independence from drugs, without which there is no freedom.~ William Von Raab No man shall twice be sentenced by Civil Justice for one and the same crime, offense, or trespass.~ Nathaniel Ward Life and liberty can be as much endangered from illegal methods used to convict those thought to be criminals as from the actual criminals themselves.~ Earl Warren Let experience solve it. To listen to mere speculation in such a case were criminal.~ George Washington Most of the major ills of the world have been caused by well-meaning people who ignored the principle of individual freedom, except as applied to themselves, and who were obsessed with fanatical zeal to improve the lot of mankind-in-the-mass through some pet formula of their own. The harm done by ordinary criminals, murderers, gangsters, and thieves is negligible in comparison with the agony inflicted upon human beings by the professional do-gooders, who attempt to set themselves up as gods on earth and who would ruthlessly force their views on all others - with the abiding assurance that the end justifies the means.~ Henry Grady Weaver In Europe, when tobacco was first introduced, it was immediately banned. In Turkey, if you got caught with tobacco, you had your nose slit. China and Russia imposed the death penalty for possession of tobacco.~ Andrew Weil, MD There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime – namely, repressive justice.~ Simone Weil As one reads history, not in the expurgated editions written for schoolboys and passmen, but in the original authorities of each time, one is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted; and a community is infinitely more brutalised by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurrence of crime.~ Oscar Wilde When you disarm peaceful citizens, crime and violence explode..~ Jarret Wollstein Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print