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)