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

— Stephen Ambrose

“If the case isn't plea bargained, dismissed or placed on the inactive docket for an indefinite period of time, if by some perverse twist…

— David Simon

You ought to be extremely cautious, watchful, jealous of your liberty; for instead of securing your rights, you may lose them forever.

— Patrick Henry

When it comes to sports I am not particularly interested. Generally speaking, I look upon them as dangerous and tiring activities performed by people…

— Fran Lebowitz

“In the first movement, our infancy as a species, we felt no separation from the natural world around us. Trees, rocks, and plants surrounded…

— Joanna Macy

Trial by jury is a privilege of the highest and most beneficial nature [and] our most important guardian both of public and private liberty.…

— William Blackstone

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…

— John Henry Wigmore

I do not apologize for advertising. I think it is as vital to the preservation of freedom in my country as the free exercise…

— Thomas Dillon

Good-looking individuals are treated better than homely ones in virtually every social situation, from dating to trial by jury. If everyday experience hasn't convinced…

— Martha Beck

The humorist who invented trial by jury played a colossal practical joke upon the world, but since we have the system we ought to…

— Mark Twain

The wisdom of our ages and the blood of our heroes has been devoted to the attainment of trial by jury. It should be…

— Thomas Jefferson

The corporations don't like open courts of law, trials by jury. They want to privatize by pushing people into compulsory arbitration where they win…

— Ralph Nader

“The film festival measured a mile in length, from the Martinez to the Vieux Port, where sales executives tucked into their platters of fruits…

— J.G. Ballard

Freedom of religion, freedom of the press, freedom of person under protection of habeas corpus; and trial by juries impartially selected, these principles form…

— Thomas Jefferson

I think that it is high time that we remembered that we have sworn to uphold and defend the Constitution. I think that it…

— Margaret Chase Smith