#witnesses

It is a considerable point in all good legislation to determine exactly the credibility of witnesses and the proofs of a crime. Every reasonable man, everyone, that is, whose ideas have a certain interconnection and whose feelings accord with those of other men, may be a witness. The true measure of his credibility is nothing other than his interest in telling or not telling the truth; for this reason it is frivolous to insist that women are too weak [to be good witnesses], childish to insist that civil death in a condemned man has the same effects as a real death, and meaningless to insist on the infamy of the infamous, when they have no interest in lying. ↗

— Cesare Beccaria

#crimes-and-punishments #justice #law #witnesses #death

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. ↗

— Isaac Barrow

#administered #alleged #apprehend #between #cases

The statements of four witnesses of unquestioned integrity, traveling with me that day, attest that such comments were never made and confirm that it simply did not happen. ↗

— Paul Crouch

#comments #confirm #day #did #four

It is impossible to have a public trial if you can't guarantee the safety of witnesses, judges or defense counsel. ↗

— Richard Goldstone

#defense #guarantee #impossible #judges #public

As witnesses that the things were not done in a corner. ↗

— Thomas Harrison

#done #things #were #witnesses

There are two other SLA members who have been granted immunity and then also, one of the SLA members had confessed to two other people, and those people, I'm sure, will be called as witnesses, as they were at the grand jury. ↗

— Patty Hearst

#been #called #confessed #grand #grand jury

Justice will overtake fabricators of lies and false witnesses. ↗

— Heraclitus

#justice #lies #overtake #will #witnesses

The days that are still to come are the wisest witnesses. ↗

— Pindar

#days #still #wisest #witnesses

It is often much harder to get rid of books than to acquire them. They stick to us in that pact of need and oblivion we make with them, witnesses to a moment in our lives we will never see again. While they are still there, it is part of us. ↗

— Carlos María Domínguez

#life #moments #need #soul #witnesses

The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses - behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights. ↗

— Muhammad Ali

#before #behind #dance #far #far away