We have no prisons.

>In the government you call civilized, the happiness of the people is constantly sacrificed to the splendor of empire. Hence the origin of your codes of criminal and civil laws; hence your dungeons and your prisons. We have no prisons; we have no pompous parade of courts; we have no written laws; and yet judges are as highly revered among us as they are among you, and their decisions are as much regarded. >Property, to say the least, is well-guarded, and crimes are as impartially punished. We have among us no exalted villains above the control of our laws. Daring wickedness is here never allowed to triumph over helpless innocence. The estates of widows and orphans are never devoured by enterprising swindlers. In a word, we have no robbery under the color of the law. >- [Joseph Brant](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cc/Joseph_Brant_painting_by_George_Romney_1776_%282%29.jpg), a.k.a. Thayendanedgea, Mohawk, 1807 _________________________________ **Source:** Stephens, John Richard. “Alternative Views.” *Weird History 101: Tales of Intrigue, Mayhem, and Outrageous Behavior*. New York: Barnes & Noble, 2006. 77. Print. _________________________________ **Further Reading:** [Thayendanegea / Joseph Brant / “Monster Brant”](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Brant)