Presumption Quotations

I believe I am entitled like any other person to have the presumption of innocence.

People are entitled to the presumption of innocence.

This is a generation weaned on Watergate, and there is no presumption of innocence and no presumption of good intentions. Instead, there is a presumption that, without relentless scrutiny, the government will misbehave.

There's a presumption that somehow you calculate beforehand whether something is going to be good politically or not. I simply don't.

God does not suffer presumption in anyone but himself.

Some may remember, if you have good memories, that there used to be a concept in Anglo-American law called a presumption of innocence, innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Now that's so deep in history that there's no point even bringing it up, but it did once exist.

I don't think the law exists to arrive at the truth. If it did, we wouldn't have exclusionary rules, we wouldn't have presumptions of innocence, we wouldn't have proof beyond reasonable doubt. There's an enormous difference between the role of truth in law and the role of truth in science. In law, truth is one among many goals.

When truth and reason cannot be heard, then must presumption rule.

The presumption of innocence only means you don't go right to jail.

There's another weight of us being in the public eye, which is this presumption that, because your work and your promotion work is very public, your private life should be, too.

Latent genius is but a presumption. Everything that can be, is bound to come into being, and what never comes into being is nothing.

The presumption of innocence is not just a legal concept. In commonplace terms, it rests on that generosity of spirit which assumes the best, not the worst, of the stranger.

But I rather thought--I mean, I heard you'd killed Balder the Fair." "I never did," snapped Loki crossly. "Well, no one ever proved I did. What happened to the presumption of innocence? Besides, he was supposed to be invulnerable. Was it my fault that he wasn't?

Etiquette requires the presumption of good until the contrary is proved.

Arrogance is the act of the great; presumption that of the little.

Presumption must be quenched even more than a fire.

Most of my presumptions about a production are usually wrong.

Despair ruins some, presumption many.

Truth is more deceptive than falsehood, for it is more frequently presented by those from whom we do not expect it, and so has against it a numerical presumption.