“You kill men for the wrongs they have done, not the wrongs that they may do someday.”

“Great wrongs have been done you, but the past is dust. The future may yet be won ..”

“The good that may come out of the loss does not erase its badness or excuse the wrong done. Nothing can do that.”

“Someday, you do not know when, you will be driving down the road and someday, you do not now when, you will make a wrong tun. At the end of the road, when you're least expecting it, he (or indeed she) will be there.”

“It is wrong to kill anyone. It is wrong to kill those who kill. It is wrong to kill the executioner. The laws on murder must be killed!”

“The modern evil, we have said, greatly turns on this: thatpeople do not see that the exception proves the rule. Thus it mayor may not be right to kill a murderer; but it can only conceivablybe right to kill a murderer because it is wrong to kill a man.”