Death Penalty Cases

Famous quotes containing the words death, penalty and/or cases:

    “Buddhists and Christians contrive to agree about death

    Making death their ideal basis for different ideals.
    The Communists however disapprove of death
    Except when practical.”
    —William Empson (1906–1984)

    “No true believer could be intolerant or a persecutor. If I were a magistrate and the law carried the death penalty against atheists, I would begin by sending to the stake whoever denounced another.”
    —Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778)

    “I have always felt that the real purpose of government is to enhance the lives of people and that a leader can best do that by restraining government in most cases instead of enlarging it at every opportunity.”
    —Gerald R. Ford (b. 1913)