The guilty never escape unscathed. My fees are sufficient punishment for anyone.

-Bailey, F(rancis) Lee
  In the Los  Angeles Times, 9  Jan.

All punishment ismischief: all punishment in itself is evil.

-Bentham,Jeremy
  An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation, ch.13.

My punishment isgreater than I can bear.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Cain. Genesis 4:10.

Death is anunusually severe and degrading punishment.

-Brennan,WilliamJ(oseph),Jr
  Ruling to outlaw states'right to impose capital punishment, 29  Jun.

All the friends that I loved and wanted to reward are dead, and all the enemies that I hated and I had marked out for punishment are turned to my friends.

-Buchanan,James
  Onfinally achieving his country's highest politicaloffice at the age of 65.

The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition if he break, servitude is at once the consequence of his crime, and the punishment of his guilt.

-Curran,John Philpot
  Speech, Dublin,10  Jul.

Somepunishment seemspreparing fora peoplewhoare so ungratefully abusing the best Constitution and the best king that any nation was ever blessed with.

-Franklin, Benjamin
  Speech in London during the Wilkes riots, May.

Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the criminal.

-Fry, Elizabeth
Quoted in Rachel E Cresswell and Katharine Fry Memoir of the Life of Elizabeth Fry (1848).

My object all sublime I shall achieve in timeö To let the punishment fit the crime.

-Gilbert, Sir W(illiam) S(chwenck)
   The Mikado's song, The Mikado, act 2.

A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.

-Hemingway, Ernest Millar
  Letter, 6 Dec.

The study of crime begins with the knowledge of oneself. All that you despise, all that you loathe, all that you reject, all that you condemn and seek to convert by punishment springs from you.

-Miller, Henry Valentine
  The Air-Conditioned Nightmare,'The Soul of  Anaesthesia'.