Capital

Famous quotes containing the word capital:

    We make needless ado about capital punishment,—taking lives, when there is no life to take.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    It is a capital blunder; as you discover, when another man recites his charities.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    I should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment.
    James Madison (1751–1836)