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The accused

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The victor will always be the judge, and the vanquished the accused. Hermann Göring

Every neurosis is a primitive form of legal proceeding in which the accused carries on the prosecution, imposes judgment and executes the sentence: all to the end that someone else should not perform the same process. Lionel Trilling

One is either judge or accused. The judge sits, the accused stands. Live on your feet. Jean Cocteau

An impeachable offense is whatever a majority of the House of Representatives considers it to be at a given moment in history; conviction results from whatever offense or offenses two-thirds of the other body considers to be sufficiently serious to require removal of the accused from office. Gerald Ford

Money will determine whether the accused goes to prison or walks out of the courtroom a free man. Johnnie Cochran

The court is most merciful when the accused is most rich. Jewish Proverb

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