Careful Words

exit (n.)

exit (v.)

  Blandishments will not fascinate us, nor will threats of a "halter" intimidate. For, under God, we are determined that wheresoever, whensoever, or howsoever we shall be called to make our exit, we will die free men.

Josiah Quincy (1744-1775): Observations on the Boston Port Bill, 1774.