Catherine the Great Quotes

What right can give anyone authority to inflict torture upon a citizen when it is still unknown whether he is innocent or guilty?

Catherine the Great

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• What right can give anyone authority to inflict torture upon a citizen when it is still unknown whether he is innocent or guilty?

  

  Catherine the Great
  • Guilty
  • Innocent
  • Unknown