Community Quote by John Adams

“The reason is, because it’s of more importance to community, that innocence should be protected, than it is, that guilt should be punished.”

— David McCullough

Innocence does not find near so much protection as guilt.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Innocence is lucky if it finds the same protection as guilt

— Anonymous

“When exactly did punishing the guilt became more important then helping the innocent”

— D

It is more important that innocence be protected than it is that guilt be punished, for guilt and crimes are so frequent in this…

— John Adams

There is a fine line between guilt and innocence.

— Konkona Sen Sharma

Being guilty tends to engender feelings of guilt.

— Craig Ferguson

Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and the very…

— Hannah Arendt

It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.

— Voltaire

The innocence that feels no risk and is taught no caution, is more vulnerable than guilt, and oftener assailed.

— Nathaniel Parker Willis

Rather let the crime of the guilty go unpunished than condemn the innocent.

— Justinian I

Our constitutionally-based criminal justice system places a high value on protecting the innocent. Among its central tenets is the idea that it is better…

— Robert Shapiro