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Well, gentlemen, you are about to see a baked Appel. [Executed in electric chair in New York.]

Let's do it! [Executed by firing squad.]

Lock and load. Let's do it. [Executed. ]

Young men are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and fitter for new projects than for settled business.

[Executed by firing squad.] Take a step forward, lads. It will be easier that way.

He had a head to contrive, a tongue to persuade, and a hand to execute any mischief.

In every deed of mischief he had a heart to resolve, a head to contrive, and a hand to execute.

"War," says Machiavelli, "ought to be the only study of a prince;" and by a prince he means every sort of state, however constituted. "He ought," says this great political doctor, "to consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes ability to execute military plans. "A meditation on the conduct of political societies made old Hobbes imagine that war was the state of nature.

To execute laws is a royal office; to execute orders is not to be a king. However, a political executive magistracy, though merely such, is a great trust.

The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity, and execute with vigor; to sketch out the map of possibilities; and then to treat them as probabilities.