Plead Guilty

Famous quotes containing the words plead guilty, plead and/or guilty:

“Carlyle must undoubtedly plead guilty to the charge of mannerism. He not only has his vein, but his peculiar manner of working it. He has a style which can be imitated, and sometimes is an imitator of himself.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“In law it is a good policy to never plead what you need not, lest you oblige yourself to prove what you can not.”
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)

“It is better that a guilty man should not be brought to trial than that he should be acquitted.”
—Titus Livius (Livy)