“It is better to confess under the gallows, then not at all”
Dutch Proverb
“suggested he would not favor sending even Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin or Idi Amin to the gallows.”
Jerry Kilgore
“Earl of Sandwhich . . .You shall either die of the pox or on the gallowsJohn Wilkes . . . That sir depends on whether I embrace your mistress or your politics”
John Wilkes
“If we were brought to trial for the crimes we have committed against ourselves, few would escape the gallows”
Paul Eldridge
“All criminals turn preachers under the gallows.”
Proverb
“He hath no drowning mark upon him; his complexion is perfect gallows.”
William Shakespeare
“In the groves of their academy, at the end of every vista, you see nothing but the gallows.”
Edmund Burke
