Wilhelm Frick Quotes

You can accuse me of being a terror suspect, but I can prove to you that I'm not.

I knew I was coming home, I thought they would consider acquittal, I was disappointed that they didn't.

In the ultimate analysis, only the jury can strip a man of his liberty or his life.

One of the hardest things to believe is that anyone will abandon the effort to escape a charge of murder. It is extremely important to suspend disbelief on that. If you don't, the story is spoiled.

I am called here to answer before you, but I hear no things laid to my charge.

Not Guilty

Criticism always seemed to me a lot like police work. You look for clues, fingerprints, motives. You need to construct an airtight case.

Courtroom dramas can be boring.

You have been tried by twelve good men and true, not of your peers but as high above you as heaven is of hell, and they have said you are guilty.

We will that all men know we blame not all the lords, nor all those that are about the king's person, nor all gentlemen nor yeomen, nor all men of law, nor all bishops, nor all priests, but all such as may be found guilty by just and true inquiry and by the law.

I am as innocent regarding any conspiracy as any of you gentlemen in the room.

Scientists search for truth. Philosophers search for morality. A criminal trial searches for only one result: proof beyond a reasonable doubt.

Ye have brought this man unto me, as one that perverteth the people; and behold, I, having examined him before you, have found no fault in this man touching those things whereof ye accuse him.

A trial without witnesses, when it involves a criminal accusation, a criminal matter, is not a true trial.

I am not guilty, I am innocent.

If it doesn't fit, you must acquit.

They have been waiting for eight years to tell me that I am a war criminal and now they do it.

You don't have many suspects who are innocent of a crime.

I had only one idea before me throughout the trial, i.e. to show complete indifference towards the trial in spite of serious nature of the charges against us.

You can't charge somebody with something they have not done.

There was just too much evidence, from too many witnesses, pointing too many fingers at Ryan and his colleague for either defense team to have been able to portray it as a coincidence or a witch hunt or anything short of widespread corruption. And that's why we see this verdict.

Whether a man is guilty or innocent, we have to find that out by due process of law.

I have done nothing wrong.

I did not have anything to do with these murders. Ever.

I am innocent of the blood of this just person; see ye to it.