Isaac Parker Quotes

• I have ever had the single aim of justice in view. No judge who is influenced by any other consideration is fit for the bench. 'Do equal and exact justice,' is my motto, and I have often said to the grand jury, 'Permit no innocent man to be punished, but let no guilty man escape.

  Isaac Parker

  Men, Innocent Man, Views

  "He Hanged Them High: An Authentic Account of the Fanatical Judge Who Hanged Eighty-Eight Men". Book by Homer Croy, p. 218, 1952.

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• I've never hanged a man. It is the law that has done it.

  Isaac Parker

  Men, Law, Done

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• The object of punishment is to... lift the man up; to stamp out his bad nature and wicked disposition.

  Isaac Parker

  Men, Wicked, He Man

  Letter to U.S. Attorney General Augustus Hill Garland, May 27, 1885.

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• I am the most misunderstood and misrepresented of men. Misrepresented because misunderstood.

  Isaac Parker

  Men, Misunderstood

  "The Lawmen". Book by Alton Pryor (p. 103), 2006.

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