(5 quotes found)
“TRIAL, n. A formal inquiry designed to prove and put upon record the blameless characters of judges, advocates and jurors. In order to effect this purpose it is necessary to supply a contrast in the person of one who is called the defendant. . .”
Ambrose Bierce
“And these things give in charge, that they may be blameless.”
Bible
“And Samson said concerning them, Now shall I be more blameless than the Philistines, though I do them a displeasure.”
“When we quarrel, how we wish we had been blameless.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Trial. A formal inquiry designed to prove and put upon record the blameless characters of judges, advocates and jurors.”
