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Henry Ford Quote: 'Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong ...'

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I would like to see capital punishment suppressed in all democracies.


Lionel Jospin
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I support capital punishment. But let's be clear: It's a decision for each state to make.


Ted Cruz
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I contend that it's impossible to read the Sermon on the Mount and not come out against capital punishment.
Tony Campolo
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I should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment.


James Madison
As long as you have capital punishment there is no guarantee that innocent people won't be put to death.
Paul Simon
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The American people have determined that the good to be derived from capital punishment - in deterrence, and perhaps most of all in the meting out of condign justice for horrible crimes - outweighs the risk of error.
Antonin Scalia
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If someone were to say that life at hard labor is as painful as death and therefore equally cruel, I should reply that, taking all the unhappy moments of perpetual slavery together, it is perhaps even more painful, but these moments are spread out over a lifetime, and capital punishment exercises all its power in an instant.
Cesare Beccaria
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I wanted to show that crime doesn't pay. If you are saved and accept the Lord, you cannot use that as an excuse to avoid punishment.
Robert Duvall
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The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.


H. L. Mencken
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I read 'Crime and Punishment' years ago and don't recall the details of it, but I do retain a strong sense of the creeping paranoia and panic.
Arthur Smith
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Poverty may be the mother of crime, but lack of good sense is the father.


Jean de la Bruyere
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The U.N. had such lofty goals to eliminate poverty and stop war and cure diseases and help refugees - things that no one country could do.
Ted Turner
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Countries should think of Haiti not as a place where to do charity but a place where to invest and do business. And doing business in Haiti means poverty reduction.
Laurent Lamothe
The United States cannot feed every person, lift every person out of poverty, cure every disease, or stop every conflict. But our power and status have conferred upon us a tremendous responsibility to humanity.
Richard Lugar
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Many foster children have had difficulty making the transition to independent living. Several are homeless, become single parents, commit crimes, or live in poverty. They are also frequent targets of crime.
Charles Bass
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Repentance is a sweet solace to conscience as well as the most complete atonement to the Supreme Judge of our offenses; notwithstanding, the tongue of malevolence and scurrility may be continually preparing its most poisonous ingredients for the punishment of a crime, which has already received more than half a pardon.
Deborah Sampson
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It's time to make America safe again. It's time to make America one again. I know it can be done because I did it by changing New York City from 'the crime capital of America' to - according to the FBI - the safest large city in America. What I did for New York City, Donald Trump will do for America.
Rudy Giuliani
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I think that something is fundamentally wrong if a person of his great wealth is only paying 13.9 percent effective tax rate and most of Americans are paying 28, 30 percent and they make far less.
Terri Sewell
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I am not fundamentally a musician, I am fundamentally a human being.


Herbie Hancock
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We wanted to describe society from our Left point of view. Per had written political books, but they'd only sold 300 copies. We realised that people read crime and through the stories we could show the reader that under the official image of welfare-state Sweden there was another layer of poverty, criminality and brutality.
Maj Sjowall