State Prison

Famous quotes containing the words state and/or prison:

    “The State never intentionally confronts a man’s sense, intellectual or moral, but only his body, his senses. It is not armed with superior wit or honesty, but with superior physical strength.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “The prison is the state writ small.”
    —Mason Cooley (b. 1927)