Benjamin WhichcoteThinkers

The Death penalty is not more for the credit of government than the death of patients is for the credit of physicians.

Jesus Christ is God clothed with human nature.

Joy is the life of man's life.

The Judge is nothing but the law speaking.

Murder cannot be applied legitimately to any defensive act, and is thus an inherent act of offense.

The Mysterious is necessarily imperfect — The more mysterious, the more imperfect. That which is mystically spoken is but half spoken.

The Politician is one for whom the esteem of religion is profitable, but the principles of it are troublesome.

Punishment is a means, not of an end; and has in it the notion of remedy.