Daniel Defoe Quote - Liberty Quotes Blog

"I hear much of people's calling out to punish the guilty,
but very few are concerned to clear the innocent."

by:	Daniel Defoe [Daniel Foe] (1660-1731) English writer, famous pamphleteer, journalist and novelist, wrote the novel Robinson Crusoe
Source:	An Appeal to Honor and Justice, 1715
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Categories:	Apathy, Hypocrisy, Individual Rights, Justice, Morals, Persecution, Prison, Punishment, Terrorism
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Reader comments about this quote:

We are innocent until legislators create a law to make us guilty. -- Joel, Rochester, MI
-- Anonymous
And why? Because Corruption and an abscense of "Love thy Neighbor" abound in society and has for a Millenia. Remember the crowds chanting "Give us Barabus" ? -- KS
True. -- Anonymous
I like Joel's quote better... 5 stars for Joel! ;-) -- J Carlton, Calgary
Joel, I like it a lot, way too accurate, way too often. I would that a thousand guilty go free before one innocent be convicted. There is an eternal justice. The accuracy of the quote begins to explain how the occupying statist theocracy infesting this land has been given such power by the sheeple. -- Mike, Norwalk
Guilty until proven innocent. -- Cal, Lewisville, TX
There is no money in clearing the innocent -- but there sure is for clearing the guilty! Case in point, pay attention to whom Presidents grant pardons during their tenure. -- E Archer, NYC