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  • As to my Title, I know not yet whether it will be honourable or dishonourable, the issue of the War must Settle it. Perhaps our Congress will be Exalted on a high Gallows. -- Abraham Clark
  • Perhaps our Congress will be Exalted on a high Gallows. -- Abraham Clark
  • If we were brought to trial for the crimes we have committed against ourselves, few would escape the gallows. -- Paul Eldridge
  • They were being driven to a prison, through no fault of their own, in all probability for life. In comparison, how much easier it would be to walk to the gallows than to this tomb of living horrors! -- Nellie Bly
  • Gallows humor is part of having a doctor in the house. Deal with it. -- J.R. Ward
  • I don't think you're dying," I said. "I think you've just got a touch of cancer. He smiled. Gallows humor. -- John Green
  • On the gallows tree, all men are brothers. -- George R. R. Martin
  • Morality for the upper classes, the gallows for the rabbles. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Once you have the gallows, you'll find new reasons to hang people from it. -- Orson Scott Card
  • If you are an executioner, don't expect to have a friend closer than a gallows! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
  • In the groves of their academy, at the end of every vista, you see nothing but the gallows. -- Edmund Burke
  • If you get hung up on everybody else's hang-ups, then the whole world's going to be nothing more than one huge gallows. -- Richard Brautigan
  • Give me six lines written by the most honorable person alive, and I shall find enough in them to condemn them to the gallows. -- Cardinal Richelieu
  • The dirty alliance between religious preachers and possessors of power brought the boon of prisons, gallows, knouts and above all such theories for the mankind. -- Bhagat Singh
  • If you must mount the gallows, give a jest to the crowd, a coin the hangman, and make the drop with a smile on your lips. -- Robert Jordan
  • Swaraj is not meant for cowards, but for those who would mount smilingly to the gallows and refuse even to allow their eyes to be bandaged. -- Mahatma Gandhi
  • One thing I would say is real cops have real gallows senses of humor and make incredibly funny and inappropriate jokes in the presence of dead people all the time. -- Daniel J. Goor
  • To vindicate the sanctity of human life by taking it is an outrage upon reason. The spectacle of a human being dangling at the end of a gallows-rope is a degradation of humanity. -- Christian Nestell Bovee
  • A lost election can have the jolt of a drop through the gallows door, leading to a dark night of the soul in which the future presses down like a cloud that will never lift. -- James Wolcott
  • If our country, when pressed with wrongs at the point of the bayonet, had been governed by its heads instead of its hearts, where should we have been now? Hanging on a gallows as high as Haman's. -- Thomas Jefferson
  • I'm a big fan of gallows humor. When my aunt passed away, she was in a coma for a day before my cousins pulled the plug. And the amount of joking and base humor that went on that day around her bed was so insane. It's crazy how people talk when something horrible is happening. -- Amanda Peet
  • Hemans gallows ought to be the fate of all such ambitious men who would involve their country in civil wars, and all the evils in its train that they might reign & ride on its whirlwinds & direct the Storm The free people of these United States have spoken, and consigned these wicked demagogues to their proper doom. -- Andrew Jackson
  • Funny stories on set - there are thousands of them, but they are only funny to the people who were on the movies. You start to have inside jokes and gallows humor. You have all kinds of things you laugh at, but as soon as you tell somebody, the joke falls flat because they don't know the context of it. -- Bruce Campbell
  • I made my own house be my gallows. -- Dante Alighieri
  • Crosses and gallows - that deadly historic juxtaposition. -- Howard Zinn
  • Yet, like the sea and the gallows, London refuses nobody. -- Peter Ackroyd
  • I would rather die upon yonder gallows, than live in slavery. -- Samuel Sharpe
  • I'm a prodigal son. The black sheep of a white flock. I shall die on the gallows. -- William A. Drake
  • I say that Roger Casement Did what he had to do, He died upon the gallows But that is nothing new. -- William Butler Yeats
  • He who makes war his profession cannot be otherwise than vicious. War makes thieves, and peace brings them to the gallows. -- Niccolo Machiavelli
  • I cannot in all conscience agree to anyone being sent to the gallows. God alone can take life because He alone gives it . . . -- Mahatma Gandhi
  • I support the protection of life from conception to natural death. But a natural death for a murderer is a death on the gallows. -- Janusz Korwin-Mikke
  • The path for those who go with the truth is not is not that smooth. Guns, crosses and hangmen in the gallows are waiting for them! -- Kandathil Sebastian
  • I always say, if you must mount the gallows, give a jest to the crowd, a coin to the hangman, and make the drop with a smile on your lips. -- Robert Jordan
  • It isn't the desire to abide by the law that makes everyone behave as society requires, but the fear of punishment. Each one of us carries a gallows inside us. -- Paulo Coelho
  • A tiny little wooden man [was] slowly ascending the steps to a real set of gallows, both perched on a box that read: Reusable Hangman "? Spell It Or He'll Swing! -- J. K. Rowling
  • The 'gallows' are not only a symbol of death, but also a symbol of cruelty, terror and irreverence for life; the common denominator of primitive savagery, medieval fanaticism and modern totalitarianism. -- Arthur Koestler
  • Few know what year it is, or even that eighteen and a half centuries are supposed to have passed since a Jewish troublemaker was hauled away to the gallows for disturbing the peace -- Michel Faber
  • Few know what year it is, or even that eighteen and a half centuries are supposed to have passed since a Jewish troublemaker was hauled away to the gallows for disturbing the peace" -- Michel Faber
  • A member of Parliament to Disraeli: 'Sir, you will either die on the gallows or of some unspeakable disease.' That depends, Sir,' said Disraeli, 'whether I embrace your policies or your mistress. -- Benjamin Disraeli
  • A voice behind me asked, "Where is God? Where is He? Where can He be now?" and a voice within me answered: "Where? Here He is - He has been hanged here, on these gallows." -- Elie Wiesel
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