Tom was a glittering hero once more--the pet of the old, the envy of the young. His name even went into immortal print, for the vi...llage paper magnified him. There were some that believed he would be President, yet, if he escaped hanging.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What is to be done with people who can't read a Sunday paper without messing it all up?... Show me a Sunday paper which has been l...eft in a condition fit only for kite flying, and I will show you an antisocial and dangerous character who has left it that way.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The hand that signed the paper felled a city; Five sovereign fingers taxed the breath,... Doubled the globe of dead and halved a country; These five kings did a king to death.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
All the reputedly powerful reactionaries are merely paper tigers. The reason is that they are divorced from the people. Look! Was ...not Hitler a paper tiger? Was Hitler not overthrown?... U.S. imperialism has not yet been overthrown and it has the atomic bomb. I believe it also will be overthrown. It, too, is a paper tiger.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
'Tis very much like light, a thing that everybody knows, and yet none can tell what to make of it: 'Tis not money, fortune, joyntu...re, raving, stabbing, hanging, romancing, flouncing, swearing, ramping, desiring, fighting, dying, though all those have been, are, and still will be mistaken and miscalled for it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The last public hanging in the State took place in 1835 on Prince Hill.... On the fatal day, the victim, a man named Watkins, peer...ing through the iron bars of his cell, and seeing the townfolk scurrying to the place of execution, is said to have remarked, 'Why is everyone running? Nothing can happen until I get there.'LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »