Andrew Johnson Quotes

The revolution turned on many of its initiators including Vergniaud. He was guillotined along with other Girondists.

Romulus Whitaker personally killed his brother.

Campbell carried out the order although many MacDonalds escaped in the highlands. The particular massacre has always taken on an even greater infamy because the Campbell murderers had been given food and hospitality by the MacDonalds. This began the most bitter of the Scottish clan feuds that persists into modern times.

Louis Eugene Walcott. Malcolm X had criticized Elijah Mohammed for sexual behavior with staff.

Vladimir Lenin

This proverb only makes sense in the light of understanding the Arab concept of revenge—“blood.” In a rural desert environment where little can be expected of government, the Arabs have developed a law enforcement and peace keeping mechanism which while primitive from modern standards, nevertheless worked to some degree. It is that revenge—“blood” is a moral necessity and obligation of all people, and revenge is not limited by time or to the individuals involved in the first incidence. The immediate family are the first to extract revenge, but the extended family follows and often the entire clan. Sometimes revenge is tribal or even national. Anyone who fails to revenge a member in his group is not only a disgrace, but is a clear and present danger to the group because then they can be attacked with impunity. So revenge is a strong obligation of the group members and blood must be paid with blood no matter how many generations it may take. The only thing that keeps me and my family safe, is the surety what whosoever kills one of us will themselves be killed or if they die a natural death we will take revenge on one of the evildoers relatives. Crime must never pay!

Nathaniel Bacon had led a rebellion in Virginia and had routed the Governor’s troops and caused him to flee leaving control of Virginia to Bacon and his followers who were far more democratic and advanced. However Bacon succumbed to swamp fever, and his followers could not hold the colony together giving the Governor a chance to establish his authority. He then went on a vengeful reign of terror, executing all of Bacon’s followers he could get his hands on. With no danger to the authority of the Crown, King Charles felt that Berkeley had gone too far. The King’s father Charles I had been executed in the aftermath of the English Civil War, but he had executed far fewer than Berkely had done in Virginia.

government appointed officials and bureaucrats Savonarola was a very hated ruler, opposed to any kind of a Parliament or assembly. And the penalty for advocating for a Parliament was severe. The Signoria were the various government appointees and clerks. They were influential in Florence and hence they were silenced by the mot draconian methods. There was a movement throughout Italy for parliaments and less arbitrary government. Savonarola was particularly strict in his rooting out sin and cruel in his punishments and hence very unpopular. He was also under the delusion that God himself had called on him to preach his strict version of morality. Some of the Nobles reached the Pope with many of Savonarola’s extreme statements and Savonarola was excommunicated and burned as a heretic. His executioner gloated that he was burning Savonarola before the powerful priest could burn him as he had done so many others.