Mother Jones Quotes

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.

When I testified in front of Congress, I know that I was testifying under oath and I told the truth.

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.

When I testify, I'll testify. I don't need to sit around chewing my fingernails.

Well, I - all cases to me have interest. Every case is important to somebody, the people litigating that case. But the most difficult case for me is the case where one person says a, the other person says b, and you just don't know for certain who is not telling you the truth.

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

Expect no trivial truth from me, unless I am on the witness- stand. I will come as near to lying as you can drive a coach and four.

Trial. A formal inquiry designed to prove and put upon record the blameless characters of judges, advocates and jurors.

Speak the truth, and all things alive or brute are vouchers, and the very roots of the grass underground there, do seem to stir and move to bear you witness.

Justice will overtake fabricators of lies and false witnesses.

There is no excuse for perjury - never, never, never. There is truth, and the truth demands respect.

I said what I said before Congress because I meant every word of it.

I think that one of the most fundamental responsibilities is to give testimony in a court of law, to give it honestly and willingly.

The courtroom oath—to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth—is applicable only to witnesses... because the American justice system is built on a foundation of not telling the whole entire truth.

All I'm going to say is I put my hand on a Bible, and I raised my right hand and swore to uphold the Constitution of the state of Florida.

I'm not pretending when I'm in that court room.

O.J. Simpson never lied to me.

The sad truth is that truth is almost irrelevant in a court of law.

At the end of the table, the secretary was reading the decision in some case, but in such a mournful and monotonous voice, that the condemned man himself would have fallen asleep while listening to it. The judge, no doubt, would have been the first of all to do so, had he not entered into an engrossing conversation while it was going on.

Ye moon and stars, bear witness to the truth.

no one bears witness for the witness

But speak the truth, and all nature and all spirits help you with unexpected furtherance. Speak the truth, and all things alive orbrute are vouchers, and the very roots of the grass underground there do seem to stir and move to bear you witness.

God is a witness that cannot be sworn.

A drunk was in front of a judge. The judge says "You've been brought here for drinking." The drunk says "Okay, let's get started.

The 'music' is not an open court and a fair trial.