Innocent Quotes: Pure and Uplifting Thoughts

"The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool"

"It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one"

"A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and became the ransom of the world. It was a perfect act"

Mahatma Gandhi, Leader

"He is armed without who is innocent within, be this thy screen, and this thy wall of brass"

Horace, Poet

"Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them"

Nathaniel Hawthorne, Novelist

"A clear and innocent conscience fears nothing"

Elizabeth I, Royalty

"We can not play innocents abroad in a world that is not innocent"

Ronald Reagan, President

"It is better that ten guilty escape than one innocent suffer"

William Blackstone, Judge

"When I first started, it was really an innocent response to the needs of women in rural areas. When we started planting trees to meet their needs, there was nothing beyond that. I did not see all the issues that I have to come to deal with"

Wangari Maathai, Activist

"A fact is a simple statement that everyone believes. It is innocent, unless found guilty. A hypothesis is a novel suggestion that no one wants to believe. It is guilty, until found effective"

Edward Teller, Physicist

"In avoiding the appearance of evil, I am not sure but I have sometimes unnecessarily deprived myself and others of innocent enjoyments"

Rutherford B. Hayes, President

"I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman"

Anais Nin, Author

"One threatens the innocent who spares the guilty"

Edward Coke, Businessman

"After doing Johnny I wanted to just do something, I wouldn't say innocent, but to not have any care in the world. Lots of setups and horrible happenings but its funny"

Jhonen Vasquez, Cartoonist

"I said to myself, where are we living? In the United States of America where you're innocent until proven guilty, or Nazi Germany with the Gestapo calling?"

Tommy Bond, Actor

"A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams"

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher

"Rather leave the crime of the guilty unpunished than condemn the innocent"

Cicero, Philosopher

"You must pursue this investigation of Watergate even if it leads to the president. I'm innocent. You've got to believe I'm innocent. If you don't, take my job"

Richard M. Nixon, President

"There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess"

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Writer

"The first step towards vice is to shroud innocent actions in mystery, and whoever likes to conceal something sooner or later has reason to conceal it"

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Philosopher

"Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent"

Jonathan Swift, Writer

"Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent"

George Orwell, Author

"I believe we are still so innocent. The species are still so innocent that a person who is apt to be murdered believes that the murderer, just before he puts the final wrench on his throat, will have enough compassion to give him one sweet cup of water"

Maya Angelou, Poet

"It was easy to persecute me without people feeling ashamed. It was easy to vilify me and project me as a woman who was not following the tradition of a 'good African woman' and as a highly educated elitist who was trying to show innocent African women ways of doing things that were not acceptable to African men"

Wangari Maathai, Activist

"We treat them in the same way. Those who kill our women and innocent, we kill their women and innocent, until they refrain"

Osama bin Laden, Criminal

"Only the old are innocent. That is what the Victorians understood, and the Christians. Original sin is a property of the young. The old grow beyond corruption very quickly"

Malcolm Bradbury, Novelist

"The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time"

William Butler Yeats, Poet

"Now and then an innocent man is sent to the legislature"

Kin Hubbard, Journalist

"Freedom is not a gift nor does it simply exist for us to have, but rather it is a sacred duty, and its blessed yield of hope is born from none other than the blood of the innocent"

Bryant H. McGill, Author

"Any newspaper, from the first line to the last, is nothing but a web of horrors, I cannot understand how an innocent hand can touch a newspaper without convulsing in disgust"

Charles Baudelaire, Poet

"I derive no pleasure from prosecuting a man, even though I know he's guilty; do you think I could sleep at night or look at myself in the mirror in the morning if I hounded an innocent man?"

Jim Garrison, Public Servant

"Any government that supports, protects or harbours terrorists is complicit in the murder of the innocent and equally guilty of terrorist crimes"

George W. Bush, President

"For more than four decades, the Libyan people have been ruled by a tyrant - Moammar Gaddafi. He has denied his people freedom, exploited their wealth, murdered opponents at home and abroad, and terrorized innocent people around the world - including Americans who were killed by Libyan agents"

Barack Obama, President

"What has happened at Guantanamo Bay... does not represent the will of the American people. I'm embarrassed about it, I think its wrong. I think it does give terrorists an unwarranted excuse to use the despicable means to hurt innocent people"

Jimmy Carter, President

"The cops picked me up for attempted murder. I can still see the detectives, licking their chops. Thought they had me. Two weeks later, the cat came out of a coma and told the truth. I was innocent"

Barry White, Musician

"Recognition should come to the reporter who uncovers public cheating or proves a convicted man innocent"

Phil Donahue, Entertainer

"The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses"

Malcolm X, Activist

"Imagine, a September 11 with weapons of mass destruction. It's not 3,000. It's tens of thousands of innocent men, women and children"

Donald Rumsfeld, Politician

"As long as you have capital punishment there is no guarantee that innocent people won't be put to death"

Paul Simon, Musician

"Your dear baby has died innocent and blameless, and has been called away by an all wise and merciful Creator, most probably from a life to misery and misfortune, and most certainly to one of happiness and bliss"

George Mason, Statesman

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