Men are convinced of your arguments your sincerity and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

It is better to risk starving to death then surrender. If you give up on your dreams what's left?

For centuries the death penalty often accompanied by barbarous refinements has been trying to hold crime in check yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not as the law claims constant forces in a state of equilibrium.

Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering.

If you believe in God believe in Death Row East.

Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.

No evil can happen to a good man either in life or after death.

At a formal dinner party the person nearest death should always be seated closest to the bathroom.

I have thought there was some advantage even in death by which we mingle with the herd of common men.

Regard your soldiers as your children and they will follow you into the deepest valleys look on them as your own beloved sons and they will stand by you even unto death.