execution quotes

A sentence ofdeathwitha stayofexecutionfor six years.

- Edward Henry, Baron Carson
  On the British Government's compromise terms by which Ireland was to be allowed to defer Home Rule for six years. Speech, Mar.

I know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent execution.

- Ulysses S(impson) Grant
  Inaugural address, 4 Mar.

There are two things which I am confident I can do very well: one is an introduction to a literary work, stating what it is to contain, and how it should be executed in the most perfect manner; the other is a conclusion, shewing from various causes why the execution has not been equal to what the author promised to himself and to the public.

- Samuel known as Dr Johnson Johnson
  Quoted in  James Boswell The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), vol.1.

   In Conceptual art the idea or concept is the most important aspect of the work†all planning and decisions are made beforehand and the execution is a perfunctoryaffair. The idea becomes the machine that makes the art.

- Sol LeWitt
  'Paragraphs on Conceptual  Art', in  Artforum, summer.

   It is the business of a statesman to judge of the expediency of different schemes of economy, and by degrees to model the minds of his subjects so as to induce them from the allurement of private interest to concur in the execution of his plan.

- SirJames Steuart (later Denham)
  Inquiry into the Principles of Political Oeconomy.