We all labor against our own cure for death is the cure of all diseases.

My father was against the death penalty and that was hard in the Son of Sam summer when fear was driving the desire for the death penalty.

I am against the death penalty.

We march and fight to death or on to victory. Our might is right no traitors shall prevail. Our hearts are steeled against the fiery gates of hell. No shot or shell can still our mighty song.

As the fly bangs against the window attempting freedom while the door stands open so we bang against death ignoring heaven.

The death of Pope John Paul II led many of different faiths and of no faith to acknowledge their debt to the Roman Catholic Church for holding on to absolutes that the rest of us can measure ourselves against.

Our criminal justice system is fallible. We know it even though we don't like to admit it. It is fallible despite the best efforts of most within it to do justice. And this fallibility is at the end of the day the most compelling persuasive and winning argument against a death penalty.

No true believer could be intolerant or a persecutor. If I were a magistrate and the law carried the death penalty against atheists I would begin by sending to the stake whoever denounced another.

Defoe says that there were a hundred thousand country fellows in his time ready to fight to the death against popery without knowing whether popery was a man or a horse.

As men are not able to fight against death misery ignorance they have taken it into their heads in order to be happy not to think of them at all.