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Henry Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston - To punish the...

To punish the guilty adequately exceeds the power of any civilised man; for the atrocities which have been committed are such as to be imagined and perpetrated only by demons sallying forth from the lowest depths of hell. (Henry Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston)

To punish the guilty adequately exceeds the power of any civilised man; for the atrocities which have been committed are such as to be imagined and perpetrated only by demons sallying forth from the lowest depths of hell.

Henry Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston

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