“I’ve no patience with modern humanitarian scruples about capital punishment.”

“Among some tossed-out books of my daughter's which I rescued...was one too awful to live. I returned it to the trash, resisting the urge to say a few parting words. All day long the thought of its mingling with chicken bones and olive pits nagged at me. Half a dozen times I removed it and replaced it, like an executioner with scruples about capital punishment. Finally I put it on a high shelf where I wouldn't have to see it. Life imprisonment.”

“Mr. Lundberg: "I asked you for your position on capital punishment."Student: "Prone.”

“Zwingli's introduction of capital punishment for those who differed from him on points of doctrine..." p179”

“In modern capitalism economic exploitation rather than political oppression is the real enemy of the people.”

“The moderns say we must not punish heretics. My only doubt is whether we have the right to punish anybody else.”