"Men are sometimes hanged for telling the truth." — Joan of Arc

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• If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged. — Noam Chomsky
• The most winning woman I ever knew was hanged for poisoning three little children for their insurance-money, and the most… — Arthur Conan Doyle
• I have a most peaceable disposition. My desires are for a modest hut, a thatched roof, but a good bed,… — Heinrich Heine
• No man is so exquisitely honest or upright in living, but that ten times in his life he might not… — Michel de Montaigne
• If the prisoner should ask the judge whether he would be content to be hanged, were he in his case,… — John Selden
• I will not leave you until I have seen you hanged. — Moliere
• I am sorry to see you here, but if you had fought like a man, you needn't be hanged like… — Anne Bonny
• Men are not hanged for stealing horses, but that horses may not be stolen. — George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax
• Ordered that of the Indians and Half-breeds sentenced to be hanged by the military commission, composed of Colonel Crooks, Lt.… — Abraham Lincoln
• Against the vast majority of my countrymen, even at this moment, in the name of humanity and civilization, I protest… — Bertrand Russell
• I think that Lee should have been hanged. It was all the worse that he was a good man and… — Henry Adams
• Karl Marx once said, 'The last capitalist we hang shall be the one who sold us the rope.' Marx was… — Amy Ridenour

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