(486 quotes found)
“An era of chemical McCarthyism is at hand, and "guilty until proven innocent" is the new slogan.”
Dr. George Lundberg
“Fair quiet, have I found thee here / And innocence thy sister dear?”
Andrew Marvell
“An innocent Plowman is more worthy than a vicious Prince.”
Benjamin Franklin
“Every life is a march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice.”
Lyman Abbott
“He who spares the guilty threatens the innocent”
Legal Maxim
“For he hears the lambs innocent call.And he hears the ewes tender reply.He is watchful while they are in peace.For they know when their Shepherd is nigh.”
William Blake
“The innocence that feels no risk and is taught no caution, is more vulnerable than guilt, and oftener assailed.”
Nathaniel Parker Willis
“The innocent are so few that two of them seldom meet - when they do meet, their victims lie strewn all round”
Elizabeth Bowen
“It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one.”
Voltaire
“What innocence, may I ask, is being played here when it is known that this virtuous damsel has already got a dozen illegitimate children?”
Nikita Khrushchev
