who said, it is better to pardon a guilty man then imprison an innocent man?

Answer 1

Chief Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes--although your quote is not quite right, you have the gist of it.

Answer 2

Socrates, or was it Pericles, the great mayor of Athens? Excuse my failed attempt at dry humor. Seriously, everything that is said has been said by someone under the sun. Therefore, since there is no absolute proof of who said what first, I submit the following analogy, President Ronald Reagan was credited with the saying, MR. GORBACHEV,TEAR DOWN THAT WALL! Most Americans do agree that he did say and make that statement. Logic and common sense would also dictate that many, many West Germans have made the same statement long before President Reagan made the same, however,the credit is given to the person of notoriety known to the most people.. My point is that anyone can say anything, however, it is impossible to prove who made the original statement. Finally, in this perverted age of political correctness, American History is the constant victim of revisionists,fictional writers,and political and social agendas, it is irrelevant who said what!

Answer 3

That's not the quote -- it's "It is better to let ten guilty men go free than to incarcerate one innocent man."
The source of the quote, originally, is Wililam Blackstone; he wrote the Commentaries On the Laws of England; which was the first real codification of the "common law." It is still cited by the Supreme Court for the "state of the law" at the time the Constitution was written.
(Of course, lots of people have mimmicked that thought throughout history)

Answer 4

The saying is it is better to pardon a hundred guilty men than to imprison one innocent man.

I don't remember for sure who said it, but I am fairly certain it was Thomas Jefferson.

Answer 5

I don't know who said it but I bet they never had someone in their family murdered by someone.

Answer 6

odds are it was a politican (guilty by nature).

Answer 7

YOU JUST SAID IT.