No man has ever yet been hanged for breaking the spirit of a law.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.
Hanging may seem barbarous, but the greater barbarity lies in the slow abandonment of our common law traditions.
No enactment of man can be considered law unless it conforms to the law of God.
There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it.
Every guilty person is his own hangman.
But men never violate the laws of God without suffering the consequences, sooner or later.
It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.
Where there are laws, he who has not broken them need not tremble.
No man e'er felt the halter draw, With good opinion of the law.
Let the punishments of criminals be useful. A hanged man is good for nothing; a man condemned to public works still serves the country, and is a living lesson.