Execution Quotes (2)
Medicine has made all its progress during the past fifty years. ... How many operations that are now in use were known fifty years ago?—they were not operations, they were executions.
Speech at the Twentieth Anniversary Dinner of the Society of Medical Jurisprudence, New York (8 Mar 1902). In Mark Twain and Paul Fatout (ed.,) Mark Twain Speaking (2006), 429-430.
Only a moment to cut off that head and a hundred years may not give us another like it.
Comment to Delambre on Lavoisier's execution, 8 May 1794. Quoted in D. McKie, Antoine Lavoisier: Scientist, Economist, Social Reformer (1962), 309.
