
In Adams' Argument for the Defense in the case of Rex v. Wemms: Suffolk Superior Court, Boston, 3-4 December, 1770; source "The Adams Papers", http://rotunda.upress.virginia.edu/
1770s
The Power and the Glory (1940)
In Adams' Argument for the Defense in the case of Rex v. Wemms: Suffolk Superior Court, Boston, 3-4 December, 1770; source "The Adams Papers", http://rotunda.upress.virginia.edu/
1770s
1770s, Boston Massacre trial (1770)
Context: It is more important that innocence be protected than it is that guilt be punished, for guilt and crimes are so frequent in this world that they cannot all be punished.
But if innocence itself is brought to the bar and condemned, perhaps to die, then the citizen will say, "whether I do good or whether I do evil is immaterial, for innocence itself is no protection," and if such an idea as that were to take hold in the mind of the citizen that would be the end of security whatsoever.
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 462.
Source: Disappointment with God: Three Questions No One Asks Aloud
Justice Ismail Mahomed, S v Makwanyane (6 June 1995).
XVIII. Why there are rejections of God, and that God is not injured.
On the Gods and the Cosmos
De laudibus legum Angliae (c. 1470), reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
"To the Indianapolis Clergy." The Iconoclast (Indianapolis, IN) (1883)