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"The punishment of death is pernicious to society, from the example of barbarity it affords. If the passions, or the necessity of war, have taught men to shed the blood of their fellow creatures, the laws, which are intended to moderate the ferocity of mankind, should not increase it by examples of barbarity, the more horrible, as this punishment is usually attended with formal pageantry. Is it not absurd, the laws, which detest and punish homicide, should, order to prevent murder, publicly commit murder themselves?" -Ceasare Beccaria

"Did any one ever give to others the right of taking away his life? Is it possible, that in the smallest portions of the liberty of each, sacrificed to the good of the public, can be contained the greatest of all good, life? If it were so, how shall it be reconciled to the maximum which tells us, that a man has no right to kill himself? Which he certainly must have, if he could give it away to another." -Ceasare Beccaria

"I mean to stand, not run from his shooting flames, stand till fate decides." -Beowulf

"So fame comes to men who mean to win it." -Beowulf

"Fate blows the hardest on a bleeding heart." -Beowulf

"Not quite. I'm thinking of a queer feeling I sometimes get, a feeling that I've got something important to say and the power to say it-only I don't know what it is, and I can't make any use of the power." -Helmoholtz Watson, Brave New World

"Two roads diverged in a wood and I -- I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference." -Robert Frost

"Is it the Devil?s fault a man cannot say you good morning without you clap him for defamation" -John Proctor

"I speak my own sins, I cannot judge another...I have no tounge for it." -John Proctor

"You came to save my soul, did you not? I have confessed myself, it is enough!" -John Proctor

"Damn the village! I confess to God, and God has seen my name on this! It is enough." -John Proctor

"Then who will judge me?...God in Heaven, whis is John Proctor[?]...I think it is honest, I think so, I am no saint." -John Proctor

"I cannot mount the gibbet like a saint. It is a fraud. I am not that man...[m]y honesty is broke." -John Proctor

"Lord, what fools these mortals be." -Puck, A Midsummer Night's Dream

"We few, we happy few, we band of brothers. For he today that sheds his blood with me shall be my brother." --William Shakespeare

"This above all: to thine own self be true." -William Shakespeare

"I may not agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it. " -Voltaire