Crime Quote by Benjamin Harrison

It is with a pious fraud as with a bad action; it begets a calamitous necessity of going on.

— Thomas Paine

Laws are no longer made by a rational process of public discussion; they are made by a process of blackmail and intimidation, and they…

— H. L. Mencken

I think the Electoral College is an absurd 18th-century construct. But that is the law.

— David Remnick

We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. We must remember always that accusation is not proof and that conviction depends upon evidence and due…

— Edward R. Murrow

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

Given the irreversibility of the death penalty, the possibility of a wrongful conviction can never be overstated

— George Gascon

“Treason the only crime defined in the Constitution. Tyranny as under the Stuart and Tudor kings characterized by the elimination of political dissent under…

— E.L. Doctorow

Every one with this writ may be a tyrant; if this commission be legal, a tyrant in a legal manner, also, may control, imprison,…

— James Otis

“If we are to violate the Constitution, will the people submit to our unauthorized acts? Sir, they ought not to submit; they would deserve…

— Edward Livingston

Disunion by force is treason.

— Andrew Jackson

Attempts to enforce by legal sanctions, acts obnoxious to so great a proportion of Citizens, tend to enervate the laws in general, and to…

— James Madison

In politics, there is only one crime that is unforgivable - showing weakness.

— Yair Lapid