Franklin Zimring quote: "That may be the politically safest way to run a parole board, but the problem is that it is a manifest perversion of what the legal structure is set up to do."

Despite a six-fold expansion in the prison system after 1980, crime hadn't gone down much. The frust...
FRANKLIN ZIMRING

(California) absolutely parallels the national pattern. The United States is the world capital of mi...
FRANKLIN ZIMRING

At what point is the discretion in individual cases actually a pattern which has become a concrete r...
FRANKLIN ZIMRING

If all the kids who made noises about killing their parents were laid end to end, you'd have an enor...
FRANKLIN ZIMRING

If the court does not invalidate penalties that are this extreme, it is telling the states, 'Anythin...
FRANKLIN ZIMRING

Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, th...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no m...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

When the well is dry, they know the worth of water.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

In reality, there is, perhaps, no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

So convenient a thing it is to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reas...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Never take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

A child thinks 20 shillings and 20 years can scarce ever be spent.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes a book.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

He that has not got a wife is not yet a complete man.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the laz...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

When you're finished changing, you're finished.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain - and most fools do.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

If we do not hang together, we shall surely hang separately.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

An egg today is better than a hen to-morrow.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

When in doubt, don't.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade?
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Lost time is never found again.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

With the Union my best and dearest earthly hopes are entwined.
FRANKLIN PIERCE

If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Distrust and caution are the parents of security.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Hunger is the best pickle.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

You—“ Mr Bellstrode began, and then leaning forward and sinking his voice, “You would kill for...
MICHELLE FRANKLIN

A Swedish minister having assembled the chiefs of the Susquehanna Indians, made a sermon to them, ac...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

I wrote '33 Men' in eight weeks. Not only was it a combination of simultaneously writing and...
JONATHAN FRANKLIN

I love 'Anne of Green Gables.' I have for years. That's one of my favourite things. She&...
ARETHA FRANKLIN

Time is the glue that bonds a broken heart, but love is the air which dries the glue. -J. Franklin.
J. FRANKLIN

Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. There is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. ...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Remember, that money is of the prolific, generating nature. Money can beget money, and its offspring...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

One good husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

He that displays too often his wife and his wallet is in danger of having both of them borrowed.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Without Freedom of Thought, there can be no such Thing as Wisdom; and no such Thing as publick Liber...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

We assemble parliaments and councils, to have the benefit of their collected wisdom; but we necessar...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

God grant, that not only the Love of Liberty, but a thorough Knowledge of the Rights of Man, may per...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Whilst the last members were signing the Constitution, Doctor Franklin, looking towards the Presiden...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

In these sentiments, sir, I agree to this Constitution, with all its faults, if they are such; becau...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Has not the famous political Fable of the Snake, with two Heads and one Body, some useful Instructio...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

When I was a child of seven years old, my friends, on a holiday, filled my pocket with coppers. I we...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Rich widows are the only secondhand goods that sell at first-class prices.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Well, Doctor, what have we gota Republic or a Monarchy?A Republic, if you can keep it.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

We must not in the course of public life expect immediate approbation and immediate grateful acknowl...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

My rule, in which I have always found satisfaction, is, never to turn aside in public affairs throug...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

I am about courting a girl I have had but little acquaintance with. How shall I come to a knowledge ...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

For want of a Nail the Shoe was lost; for want of a Shoe the Horse was lost; and for want of a Horse...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Who is wise? He that learns from every One. Who is powerful? He that governs his Passions. Who is ri...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

A plural Legislature is as necessary to good Government as a single Executive. It is not enough that...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Dr. FRANKLIN mentioned the case of the Prince of Orange William V, during the late war. An arrangeme...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Dr. Franklin was for retaining the clause on impeachment, as favorable to the executive. History fur...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

That it is better 100 guilty Persons should escape than that one innocent Person should suffer, is a...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

The small progress we have made after four or five weeks close attendance and continual reasonings w...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

I have lived, Sir, a long time, and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this trut...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

The sleeping fox catches no poultry.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Never confuse motion with action.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the mo...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

I condole with you, we have lost a most dear and valuable relation, but it is the will of God and Na...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Genius without education is like silver in the mine. -Ben Franklin.
BEN FRANKLIN

Genius without education is like silver in the mine.
BEN FRANKLIN

Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tenden...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

He who waits upon fortune is never sure of dinner.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Pride that dines on vanity, sups on contempt.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and governments.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

One today is worth two tomorrows.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

The most important four words for a successful marriage: 'I'll do the dishes.'
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Sometimes when I close my eyes, I can't see.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

In God we trust; all others must pay cash.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Marriage is a wonderful institution... but who wants to live in an institution?
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

What great energy, intelligence, and magnificent beautiful eyes... But enough about me, how are you ...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

They who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Lib...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

A Penny Saved is a Penny Earned
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Ladies, your power can influence for right or wrong, for victory or defeat. Remember, people have a ...
JENTEZEN FRANKLIN

I didn't fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Hide not your talents, they for use were made,
What's a sundial in the shade?
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

When men and woman die, as poets sung, his heart's the last part moves, her last, the tongue.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

A single man has not nearly the value he would have in a state of union. He is an incomplete animal....
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

If you teach a poor young man to shave himself, and keep his razor in order, you may contribute more...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Creditors have better memories than debtors.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

I've always felt rock and roll was very, very wholesome music.
ARETHA FRANKLIN

If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for mon...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

A benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself, to keep his friends in countenance.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

When I reflect, as I frequently do, upon the felicity I have enjoyed, I sometimes say to myself, tha...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Love well, whip well.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Plough deep while sluggards sleep.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

I have always thought that one man of tolerable abilities may work great changes, and accomplish gre...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

For the want of a nail, the shoe was lose; for the want of a shoe the horse was lose; and for the wa...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Constant complaint is the poorest sort of pay for all the comforts we enjoy.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

There never was a good war or a bad peace.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

He was so learned that he could name a horse in nine languages; so ignorant that he bought a cow to ...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Being ignorant is not so much a shame as being unwilling to learn.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

He's a fool that makes his doctor his heir.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Observe all men, thyself most.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Savages we call them because their manners differ from ours.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Teach your child to hold his tongue; he'll learn fast enough to speak.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Where liberty is, there is my country.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty ...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

That which resembles most living one's life over again, seems to be to recall all the circumstances ...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

The things which hurt, instruct.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

He that won't be counseled can't be helped.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Learn of the skillful; he that teaches himself, has a fool for his master.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than labor wears, while the used key is always bright.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry, all things easy. He that rises late must trot all da...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Laws too gentle, are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

She laughs at everything you say. Why? Because she has fine teeth.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

The learned fool writes his nonsense in better language than the unlearned, but it is still nonsense...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Those disputing, contradicting, and confuting people are generally unfortunate in their affairs. The...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

He that blows the coals in quarrels that he has nothing to do with, has no right to complain if the ...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

They that will not be counseled, cannot be helped. If you do not hear reason she will rap you on the...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Those that won't be counseled can't be helped.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us. Its appetite ...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means -- either ...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Happiness consists more in small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great piece...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

A cheerful face is nearly as good for an invalid as healthy weather.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

The proof of gold is fire...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

When you're finished changing, you're finished.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

So much for industry, my friends, and attention to one's own business; but to these we must add frug...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

If you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If you can't get paid for it, don't sell it. Do this, an...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Drive your business, let not your business drive you.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Clearly spoken, Mr. Fogg; you explain English by Greek.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

The great secret of succeeding in conversation is to admire little, to hear much; always to distrust...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Drive thy business or it will drive thee.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Let the child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

You will find the key to success under the alarm clock.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Would you live with ease, do what you should, and not what you please. Success has ruined many a man...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowled...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

God heals and the doctor takes the fee.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

He's the best physician that knows the worthlessness of the most medicines.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

What has become clear to you since we last met?
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

It is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

If you desire many things, many things will seem few.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Our necessities never equal our wants.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Who had deceived thee so often as thyself?
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Lying rides upon debt's back.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

If you would know the value of money try to borrow some.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

There have been as great souls unknown to fame as any of the most famous.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do thing...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

If we do not hang together, we will all hang separately.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Nothing is more fatal to health than an over care of it.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

To lengthen thy Life, lessen thy meals.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Take time for all things; great haste makes great waste.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

To be humble to superiors is duty, to equals courtesy, to inferiors nobleness.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

I have met the enemy, and it is the eyes of other people.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Love your enemies, for they tell you your faults.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Promises may fit the friends, but non-performance will turn them into enemies.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

When befriended, remember it; when you befriend, forget it.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Most people return small favors, acknowledge medium ones and repay greater ones -- with ingratitude.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of ...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Eat to please thyself, but dress to please others.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Genius without education is like silver in the mine.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Tomorrow every fault is to be amended; but tomorrow never comes.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

To be thrown upon one's own resources, is to be cast into the very lap of fortune; for our faculties...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

He that waits upon fortune, is never sure of a dinner.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

That may be the politically safest way to run a parole board, but the problem is that it is a manifest perversion of what the legal structure is set up to do.

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That may be the politically safest way to run a parole board, but the problem is that it is a manifest perversion of what the legal structure is set up to do.

Franklin Zimring

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