Huac Trial Quotes

It is hardly a coincidence that the cadences of Chambers's HUAC testimony should anticipate the prose of Witness. The House Committee on Un-American Activities had given him his true voice ... ~ Sam Tanenhaus

I furnished the body that was needed to sit in the defendant's chair.
[Explaining his role in the Scopes Monkey Trial.] ~ John T. Scopes

A fair trial would have been no trial at all. ~ Angela Davis

A pleasant trial is no trial. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

The only real lawyers are trial lawyers, and trial lawyers try cases to juries. ~ Clarence Darrow

I've learned through a series of trials and errors that the median space is actually what's missing in our daily walk. ~ Carlos Wallace

Have you stopped the trial?" the duchess said.
"Stopped the trial!" he expostulated. "My dear duchess, it would take the prince or God to stop this trial."
"They will have to settle for Lady Thornton," the dowager snapped. ~ Judith McNaught

There was an interesting development in the CBS-Westmoreland trial:
both sides agreed that after the trial, Andy Rooney would be allowed to
talk to the jury for three minutes about little things that annoyed him
during the trial. ~ David Letterman

Behind every trial and sorrow that He makes us shoulder, God has a reason. ~ Khaled Hosseini

The HUAC did a deal with me. I was pretty much worn down. I had no money. I couldn't borrow. ~ Lee J. Cobb

I don't think there's much a person could say about me. My gangster's never been on trial. ~ Beanie Sigel

I did it the stupid way, through trial and error. ~ Jake Roberts

I have contact with no one involved in the trial. ~ Kato Kaelin

A trial is nothing but a competition to tell the best story. Whoever sways the jury wins the trial. ~ Karin Slaughter

I'm an old trial lawyer. ~ Patrick Leahy

Twenty-eight men were on trial. If found guilty, they faced death by the grisly form of torture known as hanging, drawing and quartering. The most important of these were twenty-four who had sat as judges at the king's trial. Most of them had played other key roles in bringing the king to trial. ~ Don Jordan

Scopes isn't on trial; civilization is on trial. ~ Clarence Darrow

If we are to put the past on trial, where do we stop? ~ Craig Shirley

And, you know, like I said, I'm not looking forward to a trial. ~ Patty Hearst

For years of faithfulness even as a child are not thrown away, but yield ... a strength at last in times of trial. ~ Constance Fenimore Woolson

Everything worth having comes with a trial worth withstanding ~ Debalina Haldar

A trial is two narratives competing for your attention. ~ Harlan Coben

Successful trial lawyers are like heat-seeking missiles carrying payloads of information prejudicial to their opponent's case, constantly looking for the chance to unload their cargo, right up until the final moments of trial. ~ David Berg

For a trial is initiated not to render justice but to annihilate the defendant.
Even when the trial is of dead people, the point is to kill them off a second time: by burning their books; by removing their names from the schoolbooks; by demolishing their monuments; by rechristening the streets that bore their names. ~ Milan Kundera

The trial by jury is a trial by 'the country,' in contradistinction to a trial by the government. The jurors are drawn by lot from the mass of the people, for the very purpose of having all classes of minds and feelings, that prevail among the people at large, represented in the jury. ~ Lysander Spooner

I had never attended a trial until my daughter's murder trial. What I witnessed in that courtroom enraged and redirected me. ~ Dominick Dunne

The life we all live is amateurish and accidental; it begins in accident and proceeds by trial and error toward dubious ends. ~ Wallace Stegner

Although there are many trial marriages ... there is no such thing as a trial child. ~ Gail Sheehy

I view myself primarily as a trial lawyer who happens to be writing, as opposed to a writer who happens to be a trial lawyer, so the audience is like a jury to me. ~ Vincent Bugliosi

I don't want to be Kato, the trial guy. It's like everything I do is under a microscope. ~ Kato Kaelin

A fair trial is one in which the rules of evidence are honored, the accused has competent counsel, and the judge enforces the proper courtroom procedures - a trial in which every assumption can be challenged. ~ Harry Browne

Trial by jury is a wise distribution of power which exceeds all other modes of trial. ~ Edward Coke

I've figured out why they call it a trial. Because you try all you can to pull through it. ~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Brought before HCUA, Miller was chastised for the suggestion that Congressional investigations might have something in common with witch trials; he replied, "The comparison is inevitable, sir." Thomas was shortly afterwards thrown in jail for fraud. ~ Carl Sagan

When a person builds his life on the Word of God, he is not afraid of any trial. ~ Sunday Adelaja

Things are different here, sir," said Carrot. "It wasn't until ten years ago they replaced trial by ordeal here with trial by lawyer, and that was only because they found that lawyers were nastier. ~ Terry Pratchett

No definite science
without trial & error. ~ Toba Beta

[Ilse] was suffering so keenly that she wanted to arraign the universe at the bar of her pain. ~ L.M. Montgomery

Our first concern is the security of the lawyers because without security you can't possibly have a fair trial, if trial at all, and that's not been adequately attended to. ~ Ramsey Clark

Tell the trial lawyers to get out of your state and to quit costing businessmen and women. ~ Rick Perry

Loyalty is that for the lack of which your gang will shoot you without benefit of trial by jury. ~ Robert Frost

By Trial And Error Divine Principles That Govern Our Behavior Has Been Discovered ~ Sunday Adelaja

Bhutto's case was not a trial of murder, rather it was the overt murder of a trial - ~ Fatima Bhutto

A friend of mine who passed through a most severe trial, when I discussed it with him, he said simply, if it's fair, it isn't a trial. ~ Neal A. Maxwell

Assuredly we bring not innocence not the world, we bring impurity much rather: that which purifies us is trial, and trial is by what is contrary. ~ John Milton

Trial by jury. Live wherever you can make a living. How could a government based on such principles fail? ~ Stephen Ambrose

Trial and error is not bad, but not the best. If you don't know where the crowd is going, don't follow it. Get set. ~ Israelmore Ayivor

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

With God's help, your trial today is leading to your wholeness tomorrow. ~ Elizabeth George

It's going to be a combination Scopes trial, revolution in the streets, Woodstock Festival and People's Park, all rolled into one. ~ Abbie Hoffman

There's always such a rush to judgment. It makes a fair trial hard to get. ~ John Grisham

Never give up your right to be wrong, and be sure to give others that right too. ~ Tim Fargo

The grand solid merit of jury trial is that the jurors ... are selected at the last moment from the multitude of citizens. They cannot be known beforehand, and they melt back into the multitiude after each trial. ~ John Henry Wigmore

Q: But what do you think that the Bible, itself, says? Don't you know how it was arrived at?
A: I never made a calculation
Q: What do you think?
A: I do not think about things I don't think about.
Q: Do you think about things you do think about?
A: Well, sometimes. ~ Scopes Trial

Their world has changed overnight ... Even after the trial, after the verdict
whatever it might be
life would never be the same again.
That was the truth of murder. ~ Marian Babson

The truth is, the best win-lost records are not built on great trial work. They are built on cherry-picking only the strongest cases for trial and pleading out the rest, regardless of the right and wrong of it. ~ William Landay

One of the risks of a public trial is a public verdict. ~ Susan Estrich

When I have fully decided that a result is worth getting I go ahead of it and make trial after trial until it comes. ~ Thomas A. Edison

I think the issue is that Americans traveling abroad if gotten into legal problems should have access to a fair trial and an impartial tribunal. ~ Maria Cantwell

Today the earth speaks with resonance and clearness and every ear in every civilized country of the world is attuned to its wonderful message of the creative evolution of man, except the ear of William Jennings Bryan; he alone remains stone-deaf, he alone by his own resounding voice drowns the eternal speech of nature. ~ Henry Fairfield Osborn

Trial by jury is the palladium of our liberties. I do not know what a palladium is, but I am sure it is a good thing! ~ Mark Twain

Knowing that God is backing up our words and actions makes us strong, firm and courageous in any trial or persecution ~ Sunday Adelaja

The process of book writing for me is entirely one of trial and error. ~ Geoff Dyer

A living faith is always on trial; we call it faith for that reason. When I read in some alarmist book that the Christian faith is now on trial, or "at the crossroads," my impulse is to answer, Why Not? Does anybody know a time when the Christian faith was not on trial, or when the Christian life was a simple walkover, with neither principalities nor powers to dispute its advance? ~ John Edgar Park

I had 11 years of managerial experience and four years of coaching before I managed a big-league team. To me, it was important, because I learned a lot through trial and error. And it's tough to have to go through trial and error when you're a big-league manager. ~ Jim Leyland

We proceed by doubt, by trial and error, by resisting the impulse to lunge after certainty. ~ William Deresiewicz

Be fearless and don't be afraid of failure. There is no better way to learn than through trial-and-error. ~ Nick D'Aloisio

Building on exhaustive research and probing into such diverse enterprises as textbook production and marketing, public education, and state-level politics, Adam R. Shapiro has situated the Scopes trial within a much broader context than any scholar before him. Trying Biology also demonstrates how ideologues have used differing interpretations of the Scopes trial to advance their agendas. By situating the trial within this much broader framework, the author has significantly enlarged our understanding of the conversations between religion and science in twentieth-century America. ~ Randall Balmer

I would say my faith has become strengthened every time I have faced what I considered to be a trial, and there is no greater trial than being 14 and pregnant and not even knowing what it is. ~ Oprah Winfrey

I never had a trial I wanted to have, but I never had trial I wasn't glad I had. ~ Jack Hyles

For something to be great, there has to be some kind of trial or some type of struggle that actually makes it special or valuable to you. Otherwise, anything could be easily taken for granted. ~ Hayley Williams

Make a change of your steps when necessary. "Status quo" is the court room where change is kept on trial for long, delaying the verdict. Make a change and achieve your dreams. Rule your case with victory. ~ Israelmore Ayivor

The United States and the European Union do want to have a rule of law, and that rule of law should be for a fair trial. And that fair trial needs to have an impartial jury. ~ Maria Cantwell

Running for office is similar to being a trial lawyer in a very long trial. It requires adrenaline and stamina; it requires being in shape mentally and emotionally. It's a marathon. ~ Kamala Harris

Ideas do not always come in a flash but by diligent trial-and-error experiments that take time and thought. ~ Charles K. Kao

I think that it is high time that we remembered that we have sworn to uphold and defend the Constitution. I think that it is high time that we remembered that the Constitution, as amended, speaks not only of the freedom of speech but also of trial by jury instead of trial by accusation. ~ Margaret Chase Smith

You show me a successful complex system, and I will show you a system that has evolved through trial and error. ~ Tim Harford

Trial by jury in civil causes, ... trial by jury in criminal causes, [and] the benefits of the writ of habeas corpus ... all stand on the same footing; they are the common rights of Americans. ~ Richard Henry Lee

The object of any tyrant would be to overthrow or diminish trial by jury, for it is the lamp that shows that freedom lives. ~ Patrick Devlin, Baron Devlin

This is the most dangerous trial of all, when there is no trial and every thing goes well; for then a man is tempted to forget God, to become too bold and to misuse times of prosperity. ~ Martin Luther

In Staten Island, when you have video showing the alleged chokehold used on Eric Garner, why not go to trial and have the officer(s) explain the tape, and then this jury can determine guilt or innocence? The tape should guarantee that there should be a trial. ~ Al Sharpton

You don't know what a trial it is to be - like me. I've got to keep my face like steel in the street to keep men from winking at me. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald

Cross-examination is beyond any doubt the greatest legal engine ever invented for the discovery of truth ... Cross-examination, not trial by jury, is the great and permanent contribution of the Anglo-American system of law to improved methods of trial-procedure. ~ John Henry Wigmore

As a blacksmith uses heat to temper steel, so should a trial by fire strengthen one's mettle. ~ Jeffrey Fry

If I want my daughter to try something, I eat it in front of her repeatedly without forcing the issue and, with some trial and error, the world is our oyster! ~ Alexandra Guarnaschelli

In contrast, markets - oft mythologized as "natural" are the most unnatural things going. Libertarians will tell you "market laws are laws of nature", what baloney. Markets - and the other great modernist cornucopian tools - are magnificent wealth generating machines, built ad-hoc, through trial and error, constantly fine-tuned and refined, tinkered, adjusted. ~ David Brin

Extraordinary power exists in a trial of patience. Few endure their trials well enough to discover this. ~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Cagey trial lawyers have figured out there's a pretty good likelihood their case - no matter what its merit - will literally get its day in court because of favorable judges. ~ Dennis Hastert

There are two ways of getting out of a trial. One is simply to try to get rid of the trial, and be thankful when it is over. The other is to recognize the trial as a challenge from God to claim a larger blessing than we have ever had, and to hail it with delight as an opportunity of obtaining a larger measure of divine grace. ~ A.B. Simpson

We are a democracy and we don't believe in just hunting down gangsters and killing them. We believe in trying to find the gangsters and bring them back for trial, and give them a trial under rule of law. That's what democracies do. ~ Cornel West

In spite of some bad experiences, I'm a firm believer in the trial and error method of learning. ~ Andy Rooney

I'm trying figuring out how to be the best person I can be. But it's been a process of trial and error. ~ David Arquette

Yes,I'm afraid you're right. Trial and error isn't a bad way to learn how to build an aircraft,but it can be a disastrous way to learn how to build a civilization. ~ Daniel Quinn

The trial of Jesus of Nazareth, the trial and rehabilitation of Joan of Arc, any one of the witchcraft trials in Salem during 1691, the Moscow trials of 1937 during which Stalin destroyed all of the founders of the 1924 Soviet REvolution, the Sacco-Vanzetti trial of 1920 through 1927- there are many trials such as these in which the victim was already condemned to death before the trial took place, and it took place only to cover up the real meaning: the accused was to be put to death. These are trials in which the judge, the counsel, the jury, and the witnesses are the criminals, not the accused. For any believer in capital punishment, the fear of an honest mistake on the part of all concerned is cited as the main argument against the final terrible decision to carry out the death sentence. There is the frightful possibility in all such trials as these that the judgement has already been pronounced and the trial is just a mask for murder. ~ Katherine Anne Porter

It's true I didn't get a fair trial, but the problem is people don't understand the details. It is important to understand the details of the trial and why I'm not guilty under the charges that were brought against me. ~ Chen Shui-bian

To tell an adult exactly what steps to take towards his salvation was apt to weaken him. It deprived him of his inalienable right to trial and error which was tonic to the character. ~ Frances Gray Patton

People expect Byzantine, Machiavellian logic from politicians. But the truth is simple. Trial lawyers learn a good rule: 'Don't decide what you don't have to decide.' That's not evasion, it's wisdom. ~ Mario Cuomo

The twelve jurors were all writing very busily on the slates. "What are they doing?" Alice whispered to the Gryphon. "They can't have anything to put down yet, before the trial's begun."
"They're putting down their names," the Gryphon whispered in reply, "for fear they should forget them before the end of the trial. ~ Lewis Carroll

This trial is a farce. The real prosecutor is not the state of Finland, but the government of one great power. The real defendants are not the persons who were picked on political grounds and now stand accused here. The real defendant is the Finnish people. The purpose of this trial is not to mete out maximum sentences on those accused, but for a Finnish court to declare that Finland was the aggressor in the war and that the Soviet Union was a peace-loving, wronged victim of an unjustified aggression. [Final statement during Soviet dictated "War-responsibility" mock trial, 1945] ~ Risto Ryti

Cities are an immense laboratory of trial and error, failure and success, in city building and city design. ~ Jane Jacobs