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Innocence can be more powerful than experience.

We all have the problem of what do you do with the not-guilty-yet in free and democratic societies where you have the presumption of innocence. It's a very difficult problem.

Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue.

I have no better way of judging guilt or innocence than anyone else.

Victims suggest innocence. And innocence, by the inexorable logic that governs all relational terms, suggests guilt.

To admit guilt for nonexistent crimes is unacceptable to me.

I have always said that innocence is much more powerful than experience.

Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and the very magnitude of the crime the best excuse for doing nothing.

Presumptions of guilt or innocence may sometimes be strengthened or weakened by the place of birth and kind of education and associates a man has grown up with, and good character may at times interpose, and justly save, under suspicion, one who is accused of crime on slight circumstances.