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.
The longer you remain silent, the longer you don't turn over documents, a presumption begins to build that you're withholding something. That's human nature. That may not be a legal presumption, but that's a common sense presumption.
Protestantism became identified with the republican presumption in liberty as an end in itself. This presumption was then reinforced by an unassailable belief in the common sense of the individual.
If legislation is truly necessary, one would expect the government to be able to provide proof of this beyond anecdote and speculation. Such proof is the least we can expect before we accept a government restriction of liberty as legitimate.
I'm the heir apparent to the heir presumptive.
Most of my presumptions about a production are usually wrong.
People are entitled to the presumption of innocence.
The demand to be loved is the greatest of all arrogant presumptions.
Stay out of the court of self-judgment, for there is no presumption of innocence.
Pastor McFucking Bride this . . . Pastor McFucking Bride that. Fuck him!
God does not suffer presumption in anyone but himself.
In 1995, Glaxo bought Burroughs Wellcome and became the presumptive leader in AIDS therapy.
There's a presumption that somehow you calculate beforehand whether something is going to be good politically or not. I simply don't.
Were I to flatter myself with the possibility of success in such combat, it would indeed be presumption.
Evolution has long been the target of illogical arguments that use presumption.
Our sin is exactly the presumption that we can know God or ourselves through our own capacities.
Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short.
I don't live a lie. You have to understand that people who choose not to discuss their personal lives are not living a lie. That is a presumption that people jump to.
Presumption should never make us neglect that which appears easy to us, nor despair make us lose courage at the sight of difficulties.
There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention.
An important and fundamental premise of the American judicial system is the presumption of innocence, that is until proven guilty.
