Quotes by Halifax, Edward F.

True merit is like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes. >>

Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one. >>

I often think how much easier the world would have been to manage if H >>

Quotations about Punishment

The punishment of criminals should serve a purpose. When a man is hang >>

Prisons don't rehabilitate, they don't punish, they don't protect, so >>

All in all, punishment hardens and renders people more insensible; it >>

Men are not hanged for stealing horses, but that horses may not be stolen.

Halifax, Edward F.