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It is better to prevent crimes than to punish them.

happy is the nation without a history

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

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.

The murder that is depicted as a horrible crime is repeated in cold blood, remorselessly.

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