And if we have any evidence that the wisdom which formed the plan is in the man we have the very same evidence that the power which executed it is in him also.

Every indication of wisdom taken from the effect is equally an indication of power to execute what wisdom planned.

I shoot people in a way that makes the audience feel equal to them. And it's hard to express and it's hard to execute but I think it works on every level - the choice of the material the choice of the actor my relationship with the actor and so on.

Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer and then itself marches upon neighboring lands killing thousands and pillaging the very hills?

It's bad poetry executed by people that can't sing. That's my definition of Rap.

War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-time which gives him leisure to contrive and furnishes as ability to execute military plans.

In a few days an officer came to our camp under a flag of truce and informed Hamilton then a captain of artillery but afterwards the aid of General Washington that Captain Hale had been arrested within the British lines condemned as a spy and executed that morning.

Every neurosis is a primitive form of legal proceeding in which the accused carries on the prosecution imposes judgment and executes the sentence: all to the end that someone else should not perform the same process.

Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed too severe seldom executed.

A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.