Against Quote by Robert Walpole

The charges are false and despicable. I have not received a fair hearing. This is un-American. All the lawyering will provoke an untoward outcome.

— Catherine Crier

It's often a bad sign when people defend themselves against charges which haven't been made.

— Christopher Hitchens

The reason they were designated as targets was to keep them from the witness stand and us. Is it just a coincidence that four…

— Randi Weingarten

All the charges you enumerate have been made with one purpose in mind-to place our office on the defensive and make us waste valuable…

— Jim Garrison

Indictments obtained in the absence of sufficient proof under the law do not stand up and are not fundamentally fair to anyone.

— Daniel Cameron

Most criminal defendants do not get adequate representation because there are not enough public defenders to represent them. There is a lot that is…

— John Grisham

Everybody has a right to be defended, and every lawyer has a duty to defend people accused. And my office is to defend him,…

— Jacques Verges

The indictment knocked me on the head. First of all, I hand no idea at all about 90 per cent of the accusations in…

— Alfred Jodl

“[S]ilence supports the accuser’s charge?”

— Sophocles

Too long have we been silent under unjust and unholy charges; we cannot expect to have them removed until we disprove them through ourselves.

— Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin

Sadly the job security of lawyers has been ruined, so they are less willing to defend political defendants.

— Shirin Ebadi

The prosecution makes all the important decisions: what's charged, how much is charged, whether you can get a decent offer. Every defendant becomes an…

— Lynne Stewart