Witold Pilecki Quotes

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

Rather leave the crime of the guilty unpunished than condemn the innocent.

If people have done something wrong then they should be held accountable.

Where do murderers go, man! Who's to doom, when the judge himself is dragged to the bar?

Nothing of course was ever done to Bill for the killing of Tutt.

Blame is for God and small children.

By the fulfillment of my legal and moral duty I think I have earned punishment just as little as the tens of thousands of dutiful German officials who have now been imprisoned only because they carried out their duties.

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.

Every guilty person is his own hangman.

Everybody has to be responsible for their own actions - and if they do something wrong, I believe in paying for it.

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.

My job as a prosecutor is to do justice. And justice is served when a guilty man is convicted and an innocent man is not.

To have the truth in your possession you can be found guilty, sentenced to death.

Whoever won't fight when the President calls him, deserves to be kicked back in his hole and kept there.

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

The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, and wretches hang that jurymen may dine.

Treason doth never prosper, what's the reason? For if it prosper, none dare call it Treason.

I went to prison, I paid my bill.

It is surely easier to confess a murder over a cup of coffee than in front of a jury.

A jury of my countrymen, it is true, have found me guilty of the crime of which I stood indicted. For this I entertain not the slightest feeling of resentment towards them.

I've never been one to take glee in anyone's demise, and when I saw Jerry Sandusky walk out in handcuffs, I did kind of feel a bit sorry for him, even though the jury found him to do some horrific things; I was like, 'His life is over.'

One threatens the innocent who spares the guilty.

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 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. Time will pass and seasons will come and go. Spring with its waving green grass and heaps of sweet-smelling flowers on every hill and in every dale. Then sultry Summer, with her shimmering heat-waves on the baked horizon. And Fall, with her yeller harvest moon and the hills growing brown and golden under a sinking sun. And finally Winter, with its biting, whining wind, and all the land will be mantled with snow. But you won't be here to see any of 'em; not by a damn sight, because it's the order of this court that you be took to the nearest tree and hanged by the neck till you're dead, dead, dead, you olive-colored son of a billy goat.