The laws that forbid the carrying of arms...disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes. Can it be supposed that tho….

It is better to prevent crimes than to punish them..

False is the idea of utility that sacrifices a thousand real advantages for one imaginary or trifling inconvenience; that would take fire from men be….

For every crime that comes before him, a judge is required to complete a perfect syllogism in which the major premise must be the general law; the mi….

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 con….

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

Happy is the nation without a history..

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..

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