“I haven't decided if he deserved to eat bread made out of sticks or live in a rancid puddle, probably because I haven't made up my mind whether anyone deserves such treatment, though I suspect that the day a person gives up on the Geneva Conventions is the day a person gives up on the human race.”

—  Sarah Vowell, book Assassination Vacation

Source: Assassination Vacation (2005), p. 81 On Samuel Mudd

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