I am as content to die for God's eternal truth on the scaffold as in any other way.
I am as content to die for God's eternal truth on the scaffold as in any other way.
When one puts up a building one makes an elaborate scaffold to get everything into its proper place. But when one takes the scaffold down, the building must stand by itself with no trace of the means by which it was erected. That is how a musician should work.
Times have changed since a certain author was executed for murdering his publisher. They say that when the author was on the scaffold he said good-bye to the minister and to the reporters, and then he saw some publishers sitting in the front row below, and to them he did not say good-bye. He said instead, 'Ill see you again.'
The school-room sends men to the Legislature, to the bench, and the executive office. The bar-room sends them to the scaffold and hell.
In the Twentieth Century war will be dead, the scaffold will be dead, hatred will be dead, frontier boundaries will be dead, dogmas will be dead man will live. He will possess something higher than all thesea great country, the whole earth, and a great hope, the whole heaven.
Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.
When I mount the scaffold at last these will be my farewell words to the sheriff Say what you will against me when I am gone, but don't forget to add, in common justice, that I was never converted to anything
O joy of suffering To struggle against great odds to meet enemies undaunted To be entirely alone with them to find how much one can stand To look strife, torture, prison, popular odium, death, face to face To mount the scaffold to advance to the muzzles of guns with perfect nonchalance To be indeed a God.
The crime and not the scaffold makes the shame.
The grass grows green on the battlefield, but never on the scaffold.
But whether on the scaffold high Or in the battle's van, The fittest place where man can die Is where he dies for man.
I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword.
If they want to hang me, let them. And on the scaffold I will shout Freedom for the working class!
Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to stake.
I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword. I will tell the truth wherever I please.
It is the crime not the scaffold which is the disgrace.
© 2020 Inspirational Stories
© 2020 Inspirational Stories