Martha Stewart Quotes

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

Oust me if you want, but if I stepped down, I would be admitting guilt.

I did nothing wrongEverything I've done at this university I did the right way.

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

I am here to accept responsibility for that which I did. I will not accept responsibility for that which I did not do.

There's a lot of bad things going on but I didn't do nothing.

I did not do anything wrong as a governor, even if you accept the verdict as it is, it doesn't indicate that.

At least I'm going into the job with clean hands.

Our sense of fairness tells us that people should pay for the wrong they do.

I am responsible but not guilty!

No man ought to be condemned for exhorting people to pursue justice in a certain line, though he may foresee that in the pursuit of that justice the opposition given to those who are proceeding in a just course may produce collision, and that collision lead to the commission of crime; but our duty, as I conceive, is to seek for the injustice, and there to impute the crime… It is to that injustice, and not to those who pursue a just course for the attainment of a right end, that the guilt is to be ascribed.

I have ever had the single aim of justice in view. No judge who is influenced by any other consideration is fit for the bench. 'Do equal and exact justice,' is my motto, and I have often said to the grand jury, 'Permit no innocent man to be punished, but let no guilty man escape.'

If you're doing something wrong, you deserve to be caught.

It never feels good when people suggest that you did something wrong and you know you didn't.

Let them say what they say. The truth is, I did not engage in corruption.

My conscience is clean.

Life is about conduct and how we conduct ourselves. But two wrongs never make a right.

A scapegoat remains effective as long as we believe in its guilt.

It's perfectly obvious that somebody's responsible and somebody's innocent. Otherwise it [justice] makes no sense at all.

Innocence has a single voice that can only say over and over again, "I didn't do it." Guilt has a thousand voices, all of them lies.

Thrice is he arm'd that hath his quarrel just, And he but naked, though lock'd up in steel, Whose conscience with injustice is corrupted.

What is the most precious thing in the world? I see now that it is the knowledge that you have no part in injustice. Injustice is stronger than you, it always was and always will be, but let it not be done through you.

For to accuse requires less eloquence, such is man's nature, than to excuse; and condemnation, than absolution, more resembles justice.

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

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