hanged quotes

: If we beat the King ninety-nine times, yet he is King still so will his posterity be after him; but if the King beat us once we shall be hanged, and our posterity made slaves. : My Lord, if this be so, why did we take up arms at first? This is against fighting hereafter. If so, let us make peace, be it never so base.

- Oliver Cromwell
  EARLOFMANCHESTEROLIVER CROMWELL1644  Recorded in The Calendar of State Papers,10 Nov.

Men are not hanged for stealing horses, but that horses may not be stolen.

- George Savile, 1st Marquis of Halifax
c.1687  Political Thoughts and Reflections,'Of Punishment'.

I did not know I was a humorist. I have never been sure about it. In the middle ages,I should probably have gone about preaching and got myself burned or hanged.

-Jerome K(lapka) Jerome
  My Life and Times, ch.6.

Depend upon it, Sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.

- Samuel known as Dr Johnson Johnson
  Remark,19 Sep, alluding to the forthcoming execution of Dr Dodd. Quoted in  James Boswell  The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), vol.3.