Felon Quotes

A convicted felon who had strong family ties, a stake in the community, and an education might get probation, while a man who had few family ties, little stake in the community, and little education might draw a ten-year sentence for the same crime. (Joe Biden)
If a person who indulges in gluttony is a glutton, and a person who commits a felony is a felon, then God is an iron. View quote
Spider Robinson
I'm a relatively respectable citizen. Multiple felon perhaps, but certainly not dangerous. View quote
Hunter S. Thompson
Catilina in particular was one of the most nefarious men in that nefarious age. His villanies belong to the criminal records, not to history; but his very outward appearance - the pale countenance, the wild glance, the gait by turns sluggish and hurried - betrayed his dismal past. He possessed in a high degree the qualities which are required in the leader of such a band - the faculty of enjoying all pleasures and of bearing all privations, courage, military talent, knowledge of men, the energy of a felon, and that horrible mastery of vice which knows how to bring the weak to fall, and how to train the fallen to crime. View quote
Theodor Mommsen
For it is very hard, my lord," said a convicted felon at the bar to the late excellent judge Burnet, "to hang a poor man for stealing a horse." "You are not to be hanged sir," answered my ever-honored and beloved friend, "for stealing a horse, but you are to be hanged that horses may not be stolen. View quote
Henry Fielding
Man, it was a good thing vampires didn't get cancer. Lately he'd been chain-smoking like a felon. View quote
J.R. Ward
Unless they're a fugitive or a felon, or adjudicated mentally ill, we're not against them buying guns at all. View quote
Sarah Brady
Once you're a felon you're a target. View quote
Tommy Chong
[In a later footnote, he explains further:] "children can never be upbraided with their having had a felon for a father: whereas the descendants of a white person, married to a black one, would, for many generations, by their complexion, proclaim their origin. Accordingly, though many mulattoes and people of colour have obtained wealth, I remember no instance, in any European colony, of their having obtained rank." View quote
Jonathan Boucher
FELON, n. A person of greater enterprise than discretion, who in embracing an opportunity has formed an unfortunate attachment. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
[on President Barack Obama's performance in the 2012 Presidential Debate of Oct 3, 2012] Can I state the obvious here, since we all have theories? The obvious is he he didn't bring his game because he doesn't have a game. They have now blamed his performance on everything from strategic - he's a unifier - that's belied by his campaign, calling Mitt Romney everything from from a liar to a tax thief to a felon to a murderer to a dog abuser to a misogynist. This is one of the most negative campaigns in history... (Mary Matalin)