#penal

If you think aficionados of a living Constitution want to bring you flexibility, think again. You think the death penalty is a good idea? Persuade your fellow citizens to adopt it. You want a right to abortion? Persuade your fellow citizens and enact it. That's flexibility. ↗

— Antonin Scalia

#adopt #again #bring #citizens #constitution

The death penalty is discriminatory and does not do anything about crime. ↗

— Bobby Scott

#anything #crime #death #death penalty #discriminatory

There are not many times when I get nervous, but I do a little bit with penalties. ↗

— Alan Shearer

#get #i #i do #little #little bit

You can take 100 penalties in training, but when you go out on that pitch in front of all those people and the television cameras, it's completely different. ↗

— Alan Shearer

#completely #different #front #go #out

Tears are the natural penalties of pleasure. It is a law that we should pay for all that we enjoy. ↗

— William Gilmore Simms

#law #natural #pay #penalties #pleasure

If, during the course of the game, it be discovered that any error or illegality has been committed in the moves of the pieces, the moves must be retraced, and the necessary correction made, without penalty. ↗

— Howard Staunton

#been #committed #correction #course #discovered

I shall stand for freedom of thought and expression in a place where it has been trampled and penalized. ↗

— Jalal Talabani

#expression #freedom #i #penalized #place

Whether it's a penalty or a tax, it's all one in the same. It's coming out of somebody's hard-earned money in their pocketbooks and that's the point. So in some ways, to me, it's a distinction without a difference. ↗

— Mike Lee

#difference #distinction #me #money #out

We're making it more difficult to obtain the necessary ingredients to produce meth and tightening criminal penalties for those who deal in this dangerous drug. ↗

— Michael McCaul

#criminal penalties #dangerous #dangerous drug #deal #difficult

He thought about his people without sentimentality, with a strict closing of his accounts with life, beginning to understand how much he really loved the people he hated most. ↗

— 118

#death-penalty #family #last-words #love #death