A con-man convicted of fraud was sentenced to twenty-five years. He said, 'Judge, I can't serve twenty-five years.' 'Why can't you' 'Because I'm seventy years old now.' Then the judge gave him a very significant reply, 'Well, do the best you can.' Now, are you doing the best you can With all the tools at hand, and all the opportunities and privileges which are yours, are you doing your best Many of us fall down, but we have an opportunity to get up again. Don't be a quitter.
Quotes about convicted (16 Quotes)
The treason of which I stand convicted loses all its guilt, has been sanctified as a duty, and will be ennobled as a sacrifice.
Just because you're convicted in a court room doesn't mean you're guilty of something.
I am here wrongfully convicted and wrongfully sentenced.
I just spent 11 and a half months in a maximum-security jail, got shot five times, and was wrongly convicted of a crime I didn't commit.
Recognition should come to the reporter who uncovers public cheating or proves a convicted man innocent.
Amendment XIII Section 1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction. Section 2. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
Well for one, the 13th amendment to the constitution of the US which abolished slavery - did not abolish slavery for those convicted of a crime.
For my part, I believe that the vain, glorious and the violent will not inherit the earth.... In pursuance of that faith my friends and I take the hands of the dying in our hands. And some of us travel to the Pentagon, and others live in the Bowery and serve there, and others speak unpopularly and plainly of the fate of the unborn and of convicted criminals. It is all one.
Police forces collect information to be used in a public court to get people convicted. Security services gather information that does not necessarily lead to people being prosecuted and in many cases needs to remain confidential.
We have one of our priests in prison right now, Steve Kelly, for his antiwar actions, and three of us in the community are forbidden to visit him because we're all convicted felons.
Sadly, every year hundreds of children are victimized by a convicted sexual offender. Convicted predators should be put in prison where they belong and kept away from our Nation's children.
Since September 11th, federal terrorism investigations have resulted in charges against more than 400 suspects, and more than half of them have been convicted.
Since the September 11 attacks, nearly 400 individuals have been arrested by the Justice Department as a result of ongoing investigations into international terrorism. Of that total, over half were convicted as a result of their actions.
Hark ye, Clinker, you are a most notorious offender. You stand convicted of sickness, hunger, wretchedness and want.
If forgers and malefactors are put to death by the secular power, there is much more reason for excommunicating and even putting to death one convicted of heresy.