Democracy Quote by Robert A. Heinlein

“Unfortunately, in the social as in the political world, the victims are such cowards that one cannot for long remain indignant with their executioners.”

— Marcel Proust

Ordered that of the Indians and Half-breeds sentenced to be hanged by the military commission, composed of Colonel Crooks, Lt. Colonel Marshall, Captain Grant,…

— Abraham Lincoln

“And at almost the identical time two men were murdered. One of them was a Great Liberal Statesman who was actually a shoddy phony,…

— R.A. Lafferty

“the infamous execution chamber—which was pretty small. Less than four yards by five. I found it incredible that up to twenty-two people were crowded…

— Glenn Meade

“The trial wasn’t the finest hour of American justice as the treatment of the prisoners seemed medieval in its barbarism. Almost all of the…

— Ron Chernow

“I was court-martialed in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.”

— Thomas Hardy

“To send men to the firing squad, judicial proof is unnecessary. These procedures are an archaic bourgeois detail. This is a revolution! And a…

— Ernesto "Che" Guevara

“Somewhere nearby, artillery thundered. Vast fields — flat as a table, without a single tree — turned any moving figure into an easy target…

— Anonymous

“his former boss at CIA, Simpson had still been sitting in death, only with him instead of a car seat it was a ladder-back…

— David Baldacci

“They focused on reparation to the victim rather than punishment or fines levied on the perpetrator, and common consent of the people was necessary…

— Ben Carson

“Hangings, beheadings, impalement, oh my!”

— Mark Lawrence

“The Final Word by Stewart Stafford On the wall of a prominent jacks, Came anonymous, scurrilous attacks, Innuendo and defamatory jibes, Scrawled by cowardly…

— Stewart Stafford