Trial Quotes

It is better that a guilty man should not be brought to trial than that he should be acquitted.

But I can tell that once, and if, and when this issue gets to be, under real terms, investigated, you will be seeing certain people that we know from this country standing trial; and they will be prosecuted criminally.

I was a trial lawyer when I was elected to Congress.

We were having a trial game against Leeds, and Jack Charlton was the boss of Middlesbrough at the time.

If I had not passed through trial - through passion, one could say - through these years so painful and so rich, I don't believe I could take on my life and my career as I do today.

If we were brought to trial for the crimes we have committed against ourselves, few would escape the gallows.

This week I was proud to join with my colleagues to help pass two important, common-sense pieces of legislation that will limit the frivolous lawsuits by trial attorneys and personal injury lawyers that clog our courts and hurt our small businesses.

He exists and we have four people who identified him and I know who he is, where he is, what his phone number is, everything about him that one needs. All I need is a criminal trial so I can have him subpoenaed.

There's always such a rush to judgment. It makes a fair trial hard to get.

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

Sure, science involves trial and error. Scientists refine theories each day. But as they do, they help us grasp more clearly the wonders of the world and the universe.

Trial by jury. Live wherever you can make a living. How could a government based on such principles fail?

When the machine had been fastened with a wire to the track, so that it could not start until released by the operator, and the motor had been run to make sure that it was in condition, we tossed a coin to decide who should have the first trial. Wilbur won.

When I made Blue Moon Swamp, there was a lot of trial and error; I was trying to find people who would be simpatico with my style, and with what I had in mind for the album.

Music is really all about experimentation and lots of trial and error. It's just mind-numbingly boring until you hit on something that works well.

There was never sufficient evidence presented at my trial to support a finding of intent to kill.

And, you know, like I said, I'm not looking forward to a trial.

Pink Floyd is like a marriage that's on a permanent trial separation.

I have a friend that has five kids and she went through a trial separation with her husband, and she didn't have time to be upset. Every now and then, she'd call me on the cell phone and just cry.

Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market.

My big objective this season is to win three gold medals at the Olympics, in the road race, the time trial and the points race.

Each new film is like a trial. Before I step in front of the camera, I do not know whether I am going to fall or whether I am going to fly - and that is exactly the way I want it to stay.

All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years.