Isaac Parker quotes

“The object of punishment is to... lift the man up; to stamp out his bad nature and wicked disposition.”
-- Isaac Parker

Source : 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 Parker

Source : "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 Parker

Source : "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.”
-- Isaac Parker

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“God never can use any man very much till he has grace enough to forget himself entirely while doing God's work; for He will not give His glory to another nor share with the most valued instrument the praise that belongs to Jesus Christ alone.”

“We may not preach a crucified Saviour without being also crucified men and women. It is not enough to wear an ornamental cross as a pretty decoration. The cross that Paul speaks about was burned into his very flesh, was branded into his being, and only the Holy Spirit can burn the true cross into our innermost life.”

“Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.”

“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

“Accordingly, death is a harbor of peace for the just, but is believed a shipwreck for the wicked.”

“I want to be the next Walt Disney, only a little more wicked.”

“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.

“Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow; The rest is all but leather and prunello.”

“Nor in the critic let the man be lost.”

“To Strauss the composer I take off my hat; to Strauss the man I put it back on again.”