Famous quotes containing the words hayes and/or continue:
“We saw the machinery where murderers are now executed. Seven have been executed. The plan is better than the old one. It is quietly done. Only a few, at the most about thirty or forty, can witness [an execution]. It excites nobody outside of the list permitted to attend. I think the time for capital punishment has passed. I would abolish it. But while it lasts this is the best mode.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)
“No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)