The punishment of death is the war of a nation against a citizen whose destruction it judges to be necessary or useful.

Crimes are more effectually prevented by the certainty than the severity of punishment

It is better to prevent crimes than to punish them.

For a punishment to be just it should consist of only such gradations of intensity as suffice to deter men from committing crimes.

Laws against the possession of weapons only disarm those who have no intention of committing a crime.

The fault no child ever loses is the one he was most punished for.

Happy is the nation without a history.

The laws that forbid the carrying of arms... serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.

happy is the nation without a history

The greatest happiness of the greatest number.

I myself owe everything to French books. They developed in my soul the sentiments of humanity which had been stifled by eight years of fanatical and servile education.

Becoming fearless isn't the point. That's impossible. It's learning how to control your fear, and how to be free from it.

Sometimes...the hardest part about letting someone go is realizing that you were never meant to have them.

Our first goal is to stop the recession and start with recovery.

I think of the U.S. Marines like we used to think of the Foreign Legion; as big mouths with big hearts.

If a fellow wants to be nobody in the business world, let him neglect sending the mailman to somebody on his behalf.

Knowing what is and knowing what can be are not the same thing.

When you choose to perceive Love over fear, life begins to flow.

To have never done anything but make the eighteenth part of a pin, is a sorry account for a human being to give of his existence.

The way we do anything is the way we do everything.

It isrequisite from time to time to remind one generation of the experience which led a former generation to important legislative actions.