It is better to prevent crimes than to punish them.

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.

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

It is better to prevent crimes than to punish them.

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

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

Happy is the nation without a history.