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The crime and not the scaffold makes the shame. -- Pierre Corneille
Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne. -- James Russell Lowell
It is the crime not the scaffold which is the disgrace. -- Pierre Corneille
I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword. -- Mary Harris Jones
Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to stake. -- Wendell Phillips
If they want to hang me, let them. And on the scaffold I will shout Freedom for the working class! -- Mother Jones
I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword. I will tell the truth wherever I please. -- Mother Jones
The school-room sends men to the Legislature, to the bench, and the executive office. The bar-room sends them to the scaffold and hell. -- Thomas Jordan Jarvis
When one puts up a building one makes an elaborate scaffold to get everything into its proper place. But when one takes the scaffold down, the building must stand by itself with no trace of the means by which it was erected. That is how a musician should work. -- Andres Segovia
Assassination on the scaffold is the worst form of assassination. -- George Bernard Shaw
It is the guilt, not the scaffold, which constitutes the shame. -- Pierre Corneille
The scaffold has never yet and never will destroy an idea or a movement. -- Joseph James Ettor
Women have the right to mount the scaffold; they should likewise have the right to mount the rostrum. -- Olympe de Gouges
I am as content to die for God's eternal truth on the scaffold as in any other way. -- John Mason Brown
Assasination on the scaffold is the worst form of assasination, because there it is invested with the approval of society. -- George Bernard Shaw
I will never, for the future, paint the portrait of a tyrant until his head lies before me on the scaffold. -- Jacques-Louis David
[Restraints on the press] in all ages, have debauched morals, depressed liberty, shackled religion, supported despotism, and deluged the scaffold with blood. -- James Madison
But whether on the scaffold high Or in the battle's van, The fittest place where man can die Is where he dies for man! -- Michael Joseph Barry
He is coming! He is coming! Like a bridegroom from his room, Came the hero from his prison To the scaffold and the doom. -- William Edmondstoune Aytoun
Idealists and reformers all become executioners in their turn. The road to utopia ends with the steps of the scaffold, the endless moment of the guillotine. -- Grant Morrison
I feel like the fellow in jail who is watching his scaffold being built." (On construction of reviewing stands for inauguration of his successor John F Kennedy) -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
In Italian museums are sometimes found little painted screens that the priest used to hold in front of the face of condemned men to hide the scaffold from them. -- Albert Camus
Tom's great yellow bronze mask all draped upon an iron framework. An inhibited, nerve-drawn; dropped face - as if hung on a scaffold of heavy private brooding; and thought. -- Virginia Woolf
I may be doomed to the stake and the fire, or to the scaffold tree, but it is not in me to falter if I can promote the work of emancipation. -- David Walker
The law which attempts a man's life [capital punishment] is impractical, unjust, inadmissible. It has never repressed crime--for a second crime is every day committed at the foot of the scaffold. -- Marquis de Sade
Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne,- Yet that scaffold sways the Future, and, behind the dim unknown, Standeth God within the shadow, keeping watch above his own. -- James Russell Lowell
There is a deeper pleasure in following truth to the scaffold or the cross, than in joining the multitudinous retinue, and mingling our shouts with theirs, when victorious error celebrates its triumphs. -- Horace Mann

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