Sending

Famous quotes containing the word sending:

    “I don’t like sending ships to the bottom. What sailor does?”
    —Screenwriter. Michael Powell. Captain Lansdorff (Peter Finch)

    “I have heard arguments ... in favor of pardoning D. M. Bennett, convicted of sending obscene matter through the mails, viz., a pamphlet [by Ezra Hervey Heywood] of a polemical character in favor of free love. While I am satisfied that Bennett ought not to have been convicted, I am not satisfied that I ought to undertake to correct the mistakes of the courts—constantly persisted in—by the exercise of the pardoning power.”
    —Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)

    “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)