Isaac Parker quotes
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“The object of punishment is to... lift the man up; to stamp out his bad nature and wicked disposition.”
-- Isaac ParkerSource : Letter to U.S. Attorney General Augustus Hill Garland, May 27, 1885.
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“I am the most misunderstood and misrepresented of men. Misrepresented because misunderstood.”
-- Isaac ParkerSource : "The Lawmen". Book by Alton Pryor (p. 103), 2006.
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“I have ever had the single aim of justice in view. No judge who is influenced by any other consideration is fit for the bench. 'Do equal and exact justice,' is my motto, and I have often said to the grand jury, 'Permit no innocent man to be punished, but let no guilty man escape.”
-- Isaac ParkerSource : "He Hanged Them High: An Authentic Account of the Fanatical Judge Who Hanged Eighty-Eight Men". Book by Homer Croy, p. 218, 1952.
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“I've never hanged a man. It is the law that has done it.”
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“Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose, But young men think it is, and we were young.”
Source : More Poems (1936) no. 36
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“Accordingly, death is a harbor of peace for the just, but is believed a shipwreck for the wicked.”
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“I want to be the next Walt Disney, only a little more wicked.”
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“I am sadly afraid that I must have done some wicked thing.”
Source : "Lives and Opinions of the Eminent Philosophers (Book 6: The Cynics)". Book by Diogenes Laertius, circa 200 AD.
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“Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow; The rest is all but leather and prunello.”
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“To Strauss the composer I take off my hat; to Strauss the man I put it back on again.”
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