Liberty Quotes - Felix Frankfurter, Henry Fielding, Thomas Paine

"Ours is an accusatorial and not an inquisitorial system -- a system in which
the state must establish guilt by evidence independently and freely secured and
may not by coercion prove its charge against an accused out of his own mouth."
-- Felix Frankfurter
(1882-1965) U.S. Supreme Court Justice
Source: 1961
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Felix.Frankfurter.Quote.3FFA


"There is no zeal blinder than that which is inspired
with a love of justice against offenders."
-- Henry Fielding
(1707-1754)
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Henry.Fielding.Quote.3FE4


"An avidity to punish is always dangerous to liberty.
It leads men to stretch, to misinterpret, and
to misapply even the best of laws.
He that would make his own liberty secure
must guard even his enemy from oppression;
for if he violates his duty
he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself."
-- Thomas Paine
(1737-1809) US Founding father, pamphleteer, author
Source: Dissertation on First Principles of Government, 7 July 1795
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Thomas.Paine.Quote.3050


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