We ought to be very cautious and circumspect in the…

We ought to be very cautious in the prosecution of magic and heresy. The attempt to put down these two crimes may be extremely…

— Baron de Montesquieu

Occasionally and frequently the exercise of the judgment ought to end in absolute reservation. It may be very distasteful, and great fatigue, to suspend…

— Michael Faraday

Everybody has friends they dislike; people who they have slipped into relationships with, people they would not have chosen had they been more cautious,…

— Alexander McCall Smith

There are two things that matter in a criminal investigation of a subject.What did the person do, and when they did that thing, what…

— James Comey

The great end of prudence is to give cheerfulness to those hours which splendour cannot gild, and acclamation cannot exhilarate; those soft intervals of…

— Samuel Johnson

“Some readers may find it a curious or even unscientific endeavour to craft a criminological model of organised abuse based on the testimony of…

— Michael Salter

In the Goldstone Report, Israeli perpetrators of possible crimes against humanity were made subject to prosecution and punishment, although the geopolitical leverage of the…

— Richard A. Falk

I, you know, am all over the place — every category of pictures I have made, good, bad or indifferent. I could not make,…

— Billy Wilder

If the prosecution of crime is to be conducted with so little regard for that protection which centuries of English law have given to…

— Learned Hand

Let me have my tax money go for my protection and not for my prosecution. Let my tax money go for the protection of…

— Harvey Milk

Major international interventions are doomed unless the US is directly or indirectly involved. But if American politicians, officials and servicemen are to be put…

— Margaret Thatcher

On the one hand, you don't want to disrupt the nation with what might look like a vindictive prosecution, even though it might not…

— Rudy Giuliani

I think that compared to other politicians who have been put in jail in the past, compared to the human-rights activists in history who…

— Joshua Wong

While the prosecution has said this is about the defendants lies, one worries that those lies already have been buried under too much discussion…

— David Berg

Printers shall be liable to legal prosecution for printing and publishing false facts injurious to the party prosecuting: but they shall be under no…

— Thomas Jefferson