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• Somebody accused us of hiring him and putting him there. He was a classic.

  George W. Bush

  Military, Classic, Hiring

  "George Bush: 'I was comfortable to take the shot at Saddam". Interview with Tom Brokaw, www.independent.co.uk. April 25, 2003.

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• In Europe I have been accused of taking my scientific ideas from the Church. In America I have been called a heretic, because I will not let my church-going friends pat me on the head.

  Louis Agassiz

  Science, Europe, Ideas

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• Most of us would be upset if we were accused of being "silly." But the word "silly" comes from the old English word "selig," and its literal definition is "to be blessed, happy, healthy and prosperous."

  Zig Ziglar

  Happiness, Meaningful, Silly

  Zig Ziglar (1997). “Over the Top: Moving from Survival to Stability, from Stability to Success, from Success to Significance”, p.63, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I prefer to be accused unjustly, for then I have nothing to reproach myself with, and joyfully offer this to the good Lord. Then I humble myself at the thought that I am indeed capable of doing the thing of which I have been accused.

  Therese of Lisieux

  Humble, Catholic, Suffering

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• Every time I criticize what I consider to be excesses or faults in the news business, I am accused of repression; and the leaders of the various media professional groups wave the First Amendment as they denounce me. That happens to be my amendment too. It guarantees my free speech as much as it does their freedom of the press.

  Spiro T. Agnew

  Views, Media, Leader

  "The Impudent Snobs: Agnew Vs. the Intellectual Establishment".

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• I've been accused of trying too hard to rescue people

  Kim Edwards

  Father, People, Trying

  Kim Edwards (2010). “The Memory Keeper's Daughter”, p.406, Penguin UK

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• [The infinitely small] neither have nor can have theory; it is a dangerous instrument in the hands of beginners [ ... ] anticipating, for my part, the judgement of posterity, I would dare predict that this method will be accused one day, and rightly, of having retarded the progress of the mathematical sciences.

  Francois-Joseph Servois

  Science, Hands, Judgement

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• There has been no clearer principle of English or American constitutional law than that, in criminal cases, it is not only the power and duty of juries to judge what are the facts, what is the law, and what is the moral intent of the accused; but that it is also their power, and their primary and paramount duty, to judge the justice of the law, and to hold all laws invalid, that are, in their opinion, unjust or oppressive, and find all persons guiltless in violating, or resisting the execution of, such laws.

  Lysander Spooner

  Life, War, Law

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• Our party has been accused of fooling the public by calling tax increases 'revenue enhancement'. Not so. No one was fooled

  Dan Quayle

  Funny, Money, Party

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• There have been people.. ever since I've had any kind of position in the world.. who have accused me of being ruler of the world. I have to say that I think for the large part, I would have to decide to describe them as crack pots. It makes no sense whatsoever, and isn't true, and won't be true, and to raise it as a serious issue seems to me to be irresponsible.

  David Rockefeller

  Crazy, Power, Thinking

  "We the People: A Christian Nation". Book by Richard McKenzie Neal, 2010.

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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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• TECHNICALITY, n. In an English court a man named Home was tried for slander in having accused his neighbor of murder. His exact words were: "Sir Thomas Holt hath taken a cleaver and stricken his cook upon the head, so that one side of the head fell upon one shoulder and the other side upon the other shoulder." The defendant was acquitted by instruction of the court, the learned judges holding that the words did not charge murder, for they did not affirm the death of the cook, that being only an inference.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Taken, Home, Men

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2526, Delphi Classics

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• A lawyer once told a jury that the person his client stood accused of having killed was about to walk through the courtroom door. When the jurors looked startled, the lawyer asserted that if those jurors had wondered, even for one second that the victim might appear, that belief constituted enough reasonable doubt for them to find his client innocent.

  John Adams

  Doors, Law, Doubt

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• The bars could not hold me. Force could not control me. They tried to keep me down, but Jah put I around. Yes, I've been accused. Wrongly abused. But through the powers of the Most High, they've got to turn me loose.

  Bob Marley

  Bars, Serious, Force

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• I was accused of every monstrous vice by public rumour and private rancour; my name, which had been a knightly or noble one, was tainted. I felt that, if what was whispered, and muttered, and murmured, was true, I was unfit for England; if false, England was unfit for me.

  Lord Byron

  Names, Vices, Noble

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• We are accused here of polygamy, and actions the most indelicate, obscene, and disgusting, such that none but a corrupt and depraved heart could have contrived. These things are too outrageous to admit to belief.

  John Taylor

  Heart, Belief, Action

  Orson Pratt, John Taylor, William Gibson (O.B.E.) (1851). “A Series of Pamphlets”

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• I think that when you are accused of being in bad taste it can be quite positive. You're challenging the notions of polite society. I'd like to put across the notion that bad taste is actually good for you.

  Margaret Cho

  Thinking, Challenges, Taste

  "Margaret Cho: Laugh Lines". Interview with Katie Halper, www.guernicamag.com. June 15, 2015.

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• Something very unique about Germany is that once you are suspected or accused of having worked for the Stassi, it doesn't matter if you were 18-years-old, or a child, or an adult back then. Even if you deny it you won't get rid of this suspicion.

  Christian Schwochow

  Children, Unique, Years

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Every court of criminal justice must have the power of correcting the greatest and dangerous of all abuses of the forms of law - that of the protracted imprisonment of the accused, untried, perhaps not intended ever to be tried, it may be, not informed of the nature of the charge against him, or the name of the accuser.

  David Hume

  Law, Names, Justice

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• Jews have been circumcising their boys for thousands of years, and suddenly we are accused of tormenting our children.

  Charlotte Knobloch

  Children, Boys, Years

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I worked with Mikhail Saakashvili for more than six years. I was his right-hand man. He never accused me of anything during that time. But the minute I switched to the opposition, I was suddenly called a criminal. It was a political maneuver.

  Irakli Okruashvili

  Men, Hands, Years

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I've been accused of wanting to allow terrorists to have weapons to attack America.

  Rand Paul

  America, Weapons, Terrorist

  "Senate moves Patriot Act toward extension", www.foxnews.com. May 25, 2011.

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• I was always accused of being cold and unfeeling. It was because I was intimidated about touching people.

  David Bowie

  People, Touching, Cold

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