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• The function of the prosecutor under the federal Constitution is not to tack as many skins of victims as possible against the wall. His function is to vindicate the rights of the people as expressed in the laws and give those accused of crime a fair trial.

  William O. Douglas

  Wall, Rights, Law

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• It is not possible to assert publicly that Monsanto is anything other than venal without being accused of being a sellout, a fraud, or worse.

  Michael Specter

  Fraud, Monsanto, Being Accused

  "Why the Climate Corporation Sold Itself to Monsanto" by Michael Specter, www.newyorker.com. November 3, 2013.

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• Justice, though due to the accused, is due the accuser also. The concept of fairness cannot be strained till it is narrowed to a filament. We are to keep our balance true.

  Benjamin Cardozo

  Justice, Balance, Fairness

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• A rule that may serve for a statesman, a courtier, or a lovernever make a defence or an apology before you be accused.

  Charles I of England

  Apology, May, Defence

  1636 Letter to Lord Wentworth, 3 Sep.

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• When Catholicism goes bad it becomes the world-old, world-wide religio of amulets and holy places and priestcraft. Protestantism,in its corresponding decay, becomes a vague mist of ethical platitudes. Catholicism is accused of being too much like all the other religions; Protestantism of being insufficiently like a religion at all. Hence Plato, with his transcendent Forms, is the doctor of Protestants; Aristotle, with his immanent Forms, the doctor of Catholics.

  C. S. Lewis

  Plato, Doctors, Catholic

  C. S. Lewis (2013). “The Allegory of Love”, p.403, Cambridge University Press

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• It is hardly possible to suspect another without having in one's self the seeds of baseness the party is accused of.

  Stanisław I Leszczyński

  Party, Self, Suspicion

  François duc de La Rochefoucauld, Stanisław I Leszczyński (King of Poland) (1851). “Moral Reflections, Sentences and Maxims of Francis, Duc de la Rochefoucauld”, p.166

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• I'm being accused of being a murderer! I'M being ACCUSED of being a molester!... They say my idea of a fun day is a dark lonely field and the urunj of a car, and a large stick and a roll of duct tape! My MOM shops at Wal-Mart! She gets calls all the time now; she's worried about me! I'm not the most emotionally stable guy in the world; I'll admit that... I do have some problems, but my God, I'm not a murderer!

  Al Snow

  Mom, Lonely, Fun

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• [A] man and still more the woman, who can be accused either of doing "what nobody does," or of not doing "what everybody does," is the subject of as much depreciatory remark as if he or she had committed some grave moral delinquency.

  John Stuart Mill

  Men, Doe, Moral

  John Stuart Mill (2010). “The Basic Writings of John Stuart Mill: On Liberty, The Subjection of Women and Utilitarianism”, p.70, Modern Library

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• I have been accused of denying consciousness but I am not conscious of having done so.

  Willard Van Orman Quine

  Done, Consciousness, Has Beens

  W. V. QUINE, Willard Van Orman Quine (1987). “Quiddities”, p.132, Harvard University Press

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• You know Moms has been accused of liking young men, and I'm guilty.

  Moms Mabley

  Mom, Men, Guilty

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• It is in the name of Jesus, himself become God, that fanaticism ignominiously condemned to the stake men like Giodano Bruno, Vanini, Étienne Dolet, John Huss, Savanarola, and numerous other heroic victims; that the Inquisition ordered Galileo to belie his conscience; that thousands and thousands of unfortunates accused of witchcraft were burnt alive in popular ceremonies; it was with the express benediction of Pope Gregory XIII that the butchery of St. Bartholomew drenched Paris in blood.

  Camille Flammarion

  Religious, Jesus, Men

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• One legislator accused me of having a 19th century attitude on law and order. That is a totally false charge. I have an 18th century attitude. That is when the Founding Fathers made it clear that the safety of law abiding citizens should be one of government's primary concerns.

  Jeffrey Gitomer

  Attitude, Father, War

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• Fascism is a system of political authority and social order intended to reinforce the unity, energy, and purity of communities in which liberal democracy stands accused of producing division and decline.

  Robert O. Paxton

  Order, Community, Political

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• And we are understanding - we're beginning to understand that the Nigerian military is now better on. And also, probably even more importantly, Michel, morale is higher amongst the military. I mean, you had Nigerian soldiers being accused of cowardice, running away from Boko Haram and not having the will to fight.

  Ofeibea Quist-Arcton

  Running, Military, Mean

  "Nigeria Declares Victory Over Boko Haram - But Do Nigerians See It That Way?". "All Things Considered" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. December 27, 2015.

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• Since I knew I was going to make a film that was purely about emotions, and I knew that I ran the risk of being accused of amnesia relating to the social film, to prevent this I decided it would be good to have characters who were on the margins of society. These are characters for whom love is really the only way to know that they're alive.

  Louis Garrel

  Character, Love Is, Risk

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• If someone like myself, who is married to a white woman, who has spent my entire life building bridges, can't point out the alt-right whitelash reaction without being accused of being a racial polemecist, we're going to have a big problem.

  Van Jones

  Bridges, White, Married

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• Because [Donald Trump] so clearly - through his words and actions and the type of people that turn up at his rallies - represents people who are not the middle, not the upper middle educated class, there is a fear of seeming to be associated in any way with them, a social fear that lowers the class status of anyone who can be accused of somehow assisting Trump in any way, including any criticism of Hillary Clinton.

  Julian Assange

  Class, People, Criticism

  Source: www.zerohedge.com

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• The United States accused Syria, and because you accused you have to bring evidence [of chemical weapons], this first of all. We have to find evidences when we are there.

  Bashar al-Assad

  United States, Weapons, Firsts

  Source: legrandsoir.info

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• Mike Tyson has been accused of being a homosexual. What change do I have, you know? Everyone's in the same boat? Who could possibly care or believe anything after hearing that, really?

  George Michael

  Believe, Care, Hearing

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• What concerned me was that [James Mattis] played not only a critical role as a battlefield commander in Fallujah, but also, afterwards, when he was promoted to various other higher-ranking positions, he served as a convening authority in court-martial proceedings against various marines who had been accused of atrocities - for example, in the Haditha massacre, where a group of marines went on a killing spree after one in their unit was killed.

  James Mattis

  Marine, Atrocities, Groups

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Most of the bad taste I've been accused of has been generic bad taste; it's been making fun of an idea as opposed to a person.

  John Cleese

  Fun, Ideas, Taste

  "Ross and Brand were astoundingly tasteless". Interview with Amy Raphael, www.theguardian.com. November 28, 2008.

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• It's hard to be wrongfully accused, but it's worse when the people looking down on you are clods who have never read a book or traveled more than twenty miles from the place they were born.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Book, People, Twenties

  Patrick Rothfuss (2010). “The Name of the Wind: The Kingkiller Chonicle:”, p.54, Hachette UK

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• If you cannot be accused of exclusivity, you are not discipling.

  Howard G. Hendricks

  Discipleship, Exclusivity, Ifs

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• I would rather be accused of breaking precedents than breaking promises.

  John F. Kennedy

  Broken Promises, Keeping Your Word, Breaking Promises

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• Fluency in English is something that I'm often not accused of.

  George H. W. Bush

  Fluency

  Toasts at the State Dinner for Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto of Pakistan, www.presidency.ucsb.edu. June 6, 1989.

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