Penalty

Famous quotes containing the word penalty:

“[I support] term limits for career politicians and the death penalty for career politicians.”
—William Frist (b. 1952)

“The penalty may be removed, the crime is eternal.”
—Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)

“My excuse for not lecturing against the use of tobacco is, that I never chewed it; that is a penalty which reformed tobacco-chewers have to pay; though there are things enough I have chewed which I could lecture against.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)