Innocent

Famous quotes containing the word innocent:

““you were with me all day; stood with me, sat with me, talked with me, looked at me, ate with me, drank with me; and yet, your last act was to clutch for a monster, not only an innocent man, but the most pitiable of all men. So far may even the best man err, in judging the conduct of one with the recesses of whose condition he is not acquainted.””
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)

“It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer.”
—William Blackstone (1723–1780)

“Children must be protected not because they are innocent but because they are powerless.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)