“...the man who passes the sentence should swing the sword.""...a ruler who hides behind paid executioners soon forgets what death is.”
“A ruler who hides behind paid executioners soon forgets what death is.”
“...Ned always said that the man who passes the sentence should swing the blade, though he never took any joy in the duty. But I would, oh, yes.”
“The man who does more than he is paid for will soon be paid for more than he does.”
“There's nothing honerable in a man who hides behind a blue woman's hanky.”
“So something that never should have happened did, all because of my thoughts and actions. A clear-cut cause-and-effect relationship. I was the one who caused it, and I should probably get the death penalty. Or maybe what I should say is I'm the one who pronounced the death sentence on myself”