Criminal Quotes

This was in June, 1866. Frank wrote for me to come to him at once, and although my own wound was still very bad, I started immediately and stayed with him at the house of Mr. Alexander Severe, in Nelson county, until he recovered, which was in September.

Surrender had played out for good with me.

No, I think it taught me to be independent and never expect a handout and never wait for anybody to hand you anything in any aspect of my life.

My pistols, however, I always kept by me.

Just able barely to mount a horse and ride about a little in the spring of 1866, my life was threatened daily, and I was forced to go heavily armed. The whole country was then full of militia, robbing, plundering and killing.

I knew, however, that the next morning after the fight I would have to get away, and I did just in time, for a full company came early to look for me and were furious because I had escaped them.

I had hope, however; I had been wounded seven times during the war, and once before in this same lung; and I did not believe I was going to die.

From Nelson county we went to Logan county to see some relatives we had there, and after staying until the middle of October, I returned alone to my home in Missouri.

Overnight I became a cottage industry.

Loving an old bachelor is always a no-win situation, and you come to terms with that early on, or you go away.

It would be ugly to watch people poking sticks at a caged rat. It is uglier still to watch rats poking sticks at a caged person.

I had led a private life and wanted to die a private death.

I think my emotional revulsion against Stalin's terror would have stopped me in my tracks.

You can keep a person locked up too long.

There will always be a father.

There is an appropriate time to release somebody or to give them a break.

See you in the darkness.

It's my life and my death.

It's been sanctioned by the courts, and I accept that.

I've got problems and if you sentence me to additional time, I'm going to compound them.

I want freedom and I realize that the only way to get it is to quit breaking the law.

I stagnated in prison a long time, and I have wasted most of my life.

I am finally glad to see that the jury is looking at me.

When I was initially charged I still thought I was not guilty because I had followed the rules.

There are people who look at the rules and find ways to structure around them. The more complex the rules, the more opportunities.

The question I should have asked is not what is the rule, but what is the principle.

Mark-to-market accounting is like crack. Don't do it.

I'm ashamed of what I did.

I wish I could undo what I did at Enron but I can't. I understand that I deserve punishment. Your honor, I accept the prison sentence that you are about to impose and will serve it without bitterness.

I was extremely greedy and lost my moral compass.