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  • The laws that forbid the carrying of arms... serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.

    Men   Law   May  
  • Happy is the nation without a history.

    "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 368-69, Trattato dei Delitti e delle Pene, 1922.
  • The punishment of death is the war of a nation against a citizen whose destruction it judges to be necessary or useful.

    Cesare Beccaria (marchese di) (1963). “On crimes and punishments”, Bobbs-Merrill Company
  • It is better to prevent crimes than to punish them.

    Cesare Beccaria (2016). “On Crimes and Punishments”, p.107, Transaction Publishers
  • Laws against the possession of weapons only disarm those who have no intention of committing a crime.

    Law   Weapons   Crime  
  • For a punishment to be just it should consist of only such gradations of intensity as suffice to deter men from committing crimes.

    Men   Crime   Intensity  
    Cesare Beccaria (1963). “On Crimes and Punishments”, Pearson College Division
  • False is the idea of utility that sacrifices a thousand real advantages for one imaginary or trifling inconvenience; that would take fire from men because it burns, and water because one may drown in it; that has no remedy for evils except destruction. The laws that forbid the carrying of arms are laws of such a nature. They disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes.

    Real   Sacrifice   Men  
    Cesare Beccaria (1963). “On Crimes and Punishments”, Pearson College Division
  • The fault no child ever loses is the one he was most punished for.

  • The laws that forbid the carrying of arms...disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes. Can it be supposed that those who have the courage to violate the most sacred laws of humanity...will respect the less important and arbitrary ones... Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants, they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.

    Men   Gun   Law  
  • For every crime that comes before him, a judge is required to complete a perfect syllogism in which the major premise must be the general law; the minor, the action that conforms or does not conform to the law; and the conclusion, acquittal or punishment. If the judge were constrained, or if he desired to frame even a single additional syllogism, the door would thereby be opened to uncertainty.

    Doors   Law   Punishment  
    Cesare Beccaria (1963). “On Crimes and Punishments”, Pearson College Division
  • Crimes are more effectually prevented by the certainty than the severity of punishment

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