Quotes About Execution

This book was written to be used. It is not meant simply to be read any more than you would sit down to read through an arithmetic book without any attempt to work out the problems it describes.

We're first on executions. We're 49th in funding public education. We're in a race with Mississippi for the bottom, and we're winning.

The hangman is a disgrace to any civilized country.

The greatest enemy of a good plan is the dream of a perfect plan

Se la strategia è sbagliata, la situazione non migliora aumentando i mezzi e le truppe.

No one starts a war—or rather, no one in his sense ought to do so—without first being clear in his mind what he intends to achieve by that war and how he intends to conduct it.

A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.

them,"We accept all responsibility. Let us do our job, and then you can judge the results.

Leaders who launch movements don't "implement" a plan. They carry it out. Leaders who start movements don't offer "remuneration" for carrying out the plan. They reward people for doing it. Leaders who launch movements don't carry out a plan from "inception to termination." They see it through from start to finish.

What We Know Versus What We Do

Warren's actions on Little Round Top on July 2 demonstrated clearly how a senior leader in the heat of crisis should recognize a threat, assess its danger, form a workable plan, and follow it through to execution. A century later, his decision making on July 2 became a standard example of sound command initiative used in U.S. Army leadership manuals.

What works is making a vivid, concrete plan: "Tomorrow during my break, I'll get a cup of tea, close the door to my office, and call the graduate school." Or, in another case: "On Wednesday morning, right after I get up and brush my teeth, I'll sit at my desk and start writing my report.

Even as she faced execution, Marie Antoinette's will to control her image, to manage it through her clothing, had not left her.

Everybody sets out to do something, and everybody does something, but no one does what he sets out to do.

Most people approve of capital punishment, but most people wouldn't do the hangman's job.

Un bon projet exécuté tout de suite vaut mieux qu'un excellent projet exécuté la semaine prochaine.

You do not cut a check in the state of Kansas to John Doe, executioner. The executioner is paid in cash so there's no trail to him

the man who passes the sentence should swing the sword." "...a ruler who hides behind paid executioners soon forgets what death is.

Schemes are like fruit, they require a certain ripening.

Ned always said that the man who passes the sentence should swing the blade, though he never took any joy in the duty. But I would, oh, yes.

Edd, fetch me a block.

The blood of the First Men still flows in the veins of the Starks, and we hold to the belief that the man who passes the sentence should swing the sword.

A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow.

A good plan violently executed right now is far better than a perfect plan executed next week.