He’s made deals with drug dealers, murderers and I don’t know what all, in the dark of the night, when thieves prowl and bats fly. . . . Mr. Phillips, Sunday, you’ll be in the choir singing pretty songs, trying to save souls, but you need to get down in the pew, and let somebody sing to you.
—Kirksey McCord Nix, on U.S. Attorney George Phillips
No civilized man condones murder.
No civilized man condones crime.