“I will not receive a single plea for pardon or postponement. Them that will not confess will hang. Postponement now speaks a floundering on my part; reprieve or pardon must cast doubt upon the guilt of them that died till now.”

“I have given you my soul! Leave me my name!”

“I will not give you no name. I mentioned my wife’s name once and I’ll burn in hell long enough for that. I stand mute.”

“Oh, it be not Hell in Barbados. Devil, him be pleasureman in Barbados, him be singin’ and dancin’ in Barbados. It’s you folks—you riles him up round here; it be too cold ‘round here for that Old Boy.”

“I have been near to murdered every day because I done my duty pointing out the Devil’s people—and this is my reward? To be mistrusted, denied, questioned, like a—“

“I have sins of my own to count. It needs a cold wife to prompt lechery.”

“He have his goodness now, God forbid I take it from him!"

Who said "God is dead"?

Who said “But you must understand, sir, that a person is either with this court or he must be counted against it, there be no road between"?

Who said,

“A fart on Thomas Putnam, that's what I say to that!”

Who said,

“I denounce these proceedings, I quit this court!”

“It were only sport in the beginning . . . but then the whole world cried spirits . . . I only thought I saw them, but I did not.”

"Why, it is a lie, it is a lie; how may I damn myself? I cannot, I cannot."

"Thirty-one pound is gone. I am penniless."