The real truth is, the number of convicts is too overwhelming for the means of proper and effectual punishment. I despair of any remedy but that which I wish I could hope for - a great reduction in the amount of crime.

In every village there will arise a miscreant to establish the most grinding tyranny by calling himself the people.

The real truth is, the number of convicts is too overwhelming for the means of proper and effectual punishment. I despair of any remedy but that which I wish I could hope for - a great reduction in the amount of crime.

My belief is, from all that I have seen of the French people and their Government, that they are much more likely to presume upon our weakness than to take offence at our strength.

There seem to me to be very few facts, at least ascertainable facts, in politics.

No minister ever stood, or could stand, against public opinion.

The police are the public and the public are the police.