Samuel Johnson Quotes
To equal robbery with murder is to reduce murder to robbery, to confound in common minds the gradations if iniquity, and incite the commission of a greater crime to prevent the detection of a less.
Arguing against the them law of hanging thieves:
Samuel Johnson, 1709-1784, English Writer & Lexicographer, The Rambler, No. 114
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It is hard to imagine what could be harsher. Some have called for his arrest and trial for crimes against humanity.
In July of 1994 Hill murdered a physician whom he believed performed abortions, his driver and wounded his wife, Pensecola, Florida.
CREEP in the Nixon Campaign. He was himself a convicted Watergate conspirator
Samuel Johnson, often referred to as Dr Johnson, was an English writer who made lasting contributions to English literature as a poet, playwright, essayist, moralist, literary critic, biographer, editor, and lexicographer. Religiously, he was a devout Anglican, and politically a committed Tory. The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography describes Johnson as "arguably the most distinguished man of letters in English history". He is the subject of James Boswell's The Life of Samuel Johnson, described by Walter Jackson Bate as "the most famous single work of biographical art in the whole of literature".
