The human mind is never better disposed to gratitude and attachment than when softened by fear. - Charles James Napier

Be it so. This burning of widows is your custom; prepare the funeral pile. But my nation has also a custom. When men burn women alive we hang them, and confiscate all their property. My carpenters shall therefore erect gibbets on which to hang all concerned when the widow is consumed. Let us all act according to national customs.

the great receipt for quieting a country is a good thrashing first and great kindness afterwards: the wildest chaps are thus tamed.

Come here instantly. Come here at once and make your submission, or I will in a week tear you from the midst of your village and hang you.