Riot! Why at every execution I have seen naught but high satisfaction in the town.
– Arthur Miller
The Crucible, Act 4. Judge Hathorne rejects Reverend Parris’s warning that riot or rebellion may break out in Salem over the witch trials there. In the play Hathorne is a stern and unyielding character, in real life he was known as the "Hanging Judge" for sentencing those accused as witches to death.