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" But I'm not pro death penalty. I - I'm just anti the notion that it is not a matter for democratic choice, that it has been taken away from the democratic choice of the people by a provision of the Constitution. "

Antonin Scalia

Constitution

People

Choice

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" Loss and possession, death and life are one, There falls no shadow where there shines no sun. "

" The timing of death, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what preceded it. "

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" The government is tottering. We must deal it the death blow an any cost. To delay action is the same as death. "

" The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time. "

" I feel monotony and death to be almost the same. "

" Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it. "

" Because values change, legislatures abolish the death penalty, permit same-sex marriage if they want, abolish laws against homosexual conduct. That's how the change in a society occurs. Society doesn't change through a Constitution. "

" Life and death are illusions. We are in a constant state of transformation. "

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" Everything about aging in my experience so far has been a plus. Except the death part! "

" The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality. "

" If you just do a Google search and type in 'smoking' or 'lung cancer', you will be barraged with never ending facts and numbers, like how one in every three Americans is affected by lung disease and how COPD is the third leading cause of death and if you get lung cancer the odds are 95% that you will die. "

" And how can man die better than facing fearful odds, for the ashes of his fathers, and the temples of his Gods? "

Thomas Babington Macaulay

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Die

" Not all moral issues have the same moral weight as abortion and euthanasia. There may be legitimate diversity of opinion even among Catholics about waging war and applying the death penalty, but not... with regard to abortion and euthanasia. "

" Inactivity is death. "

Benito Mussolini

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" If I die a violent death, as some fear and a few are plotting, I know that the violence will be in the thought and the action of the assassins, not in my dying. "

" I want to tell you what it was really like to think death is imminent, but I can't. It's a taste in your mouth. And an emptiness. "

" Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose. "

" The miser, starving his brother's body, starves also his own soul, and at death shall creep out of his great estate of injustice, poor and naked and miserable. "

" In the early days of aviation, there was a great deal of experimentation and a high death rate. "

" There can be no stronger claim to a physician's assistance than at the time when death is imminent, a moral judgment implied by the state's own recognition of the legitimacy of medical procedures necessarily hastening the moment of impending death. "

" Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings. "

" I look forward to death with great anticipation, to meeting God face to face. "

" The King of Spain displayed his esteem for me in a manner that I confess flattered me pleasantly when, after the death of Don Luis de Haro, he stated publicly in front of all the foreign ambassadors that he wanted to follow my example in not having a prime minister any longer. "

Louis XIV

King

" No true believer could be intolerant or a persecutor. If I were a magistrate and the law carried the death penalty against atheists, I would begin by sending to the stake whoever denounced another. "

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Law

Death

Against

" For a man who has done his natural duty, death is as natural as sleep. "

" Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away. "

" Death is caused by swallowing small amounts of saliva over a long period of time. "

" I was personally opposed to the death penalty, and yet I think I have probably asked for the death penalty more than most people in the United States. "