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I have too great a soul to die like a criminal.

John Wilkes Booth / Actor
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I have too great a soul to die like a criminal.

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Tell mother, tell mother, I died for my country... useless... useless.

John Wilkes Booth Actor

I do not wish to shed a drop of blood, but 'I must fight the course.' Tis all that's left to me.

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Only criminals and adulterers should have to hide who they are.

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It is fortunate for this community that I am not a criminal.

Arthur Conan Doyle Physician

The kind of violence, looting, destruction that we saw from a handful of individuals in Baltimore, there's no excuse for that. That's not a statement. That's not politics. That's not activism. That's just criminal behavior.

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Laws directed against opinions affect the generous-minded rather than the wicked, and are adapted less for coercing criminals than for irritating the upright.

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The criminal justice system, like any system designed by human beings, clearly has its flaws.

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Kids are wandering around the streets today that will become tomorrow's criminals that were yesterday's heroes.

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So I was still guilty. And if I was not guilty because one cannot be guilty of betraying a criminal, then I was guilty of having loved a criminal.

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A trial without witnesses, when it involves a criminal accusation, a criminal matter, is not a true trial.

Bill Mccollum Politician

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