John Henrik Clarke Quotes

I felt like all of the American people did not believe me because of the things that were said about me, and said that people would say that it was just for the money, and it wasn't about the money. It was about what he did to me. And I knew I was telling the truth.

Anyone who has declared someone else to be an idiot, a bad apple, is annoyed when it turns out in the end that he isn't.

For God is my witness that I neither preached, affirmed, nor defended them, though they say that I did.

People decided that I was the frat guy, even though I've never been inside a fraternity, or the guy who beat them up at school, even though that wasn't me at all.

I know nothing more annoying when people I don't know jump to conclusions on my person based on nothing but gossip or speculation.

It's better to choose the culprits than to seek them out.

That justice should be administered between men, it is necessary that testimonies of fact be alleged; and that witnesses should apprehend themselves greatly obliged to discover the truth, according to their conscience, in dark and doubtful cases.

There are a lot of people who lie and get away with it, and that's just a fact.

Although the most acute judges of the witches and even the witches themselves, were convinced of the guilt of witchery, the guilt nevertheless was non-existent. It is thus with all guilt.

I say you must not win an unjust case by oaths.

If you commit perjury in a so-called first-degree murder case, and you're caught red-handed for the entire world to see, and you get only a $200 fine, what kind of message does that send about lying in our courts?

It's a horrible thing to have someone pretend like they know what you're about and call you a fraud when they haven't given you a fair shot.

The death penalty scares the hell out of me. We now see about one out of eight errors in these convictions.

If perjury and obstruction of justice do not undermine the integrity of office, what offenses would?

The gentleman is guilty of every crime that does not require courage.

If you hang them all, you will get the guilty. But that's not the American way of doing things.

It is better that Ten Suspected Witches should escape, than that one Innocent Person should be condemned.

It is true that no man is above the law but neither should any man be asked to break the law in order to buy his freedom.

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

Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Eschew all unrighteousness; that is, slaying of kinsmen, and murder, and perjury, and witchcraft and enchantment, and adultery, and incest

Do not hear one and judge two.

The innocent are frequently punished instead of the guilty

When citizens testify before grand juries they are required to tell the truth. Without the truth, our criminal justice system cannot serve our nation or its citizens.

Circumstances may accumulate so strongly even against an innocent man, that directed, sharpened, and pointed, they may slay him.