If a jury have not the right to judge between the government and those who disobey its laws, and resist its oppressions,… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
The trial by jury might safely be introduced into a despotic government, if the jury were to exercise no right of judging… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
If the question [before justices of the peace] relate to any point of public liberty, or if it be one of those… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Freedom of discussion is in England little else than the right to write or say anything which a jury of twelve shopkeepers… — A. V. Dicey Copy Share Image
When Blacks got the right to vote, white women got the right to sit on juries. — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
Anyone who clings to the historically untrue-and thoroughly immoral-doctrine that, 'violence never settles anything' I would advise to conjure the ghosts of… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as an impartial jury because there are no impartial people. There are people that argue on the… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
[It is] a historic step toward eliminating the shameful practice of racial discrimination in the selection of juries. — Thurgood Marshall Copy Share Image
Good-looking individuals are treated better than homely ones in virtually every social situation, from dating to trial by jury. — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
The problem with every judgment of sexual behavior is that it is made by people who aren't being stimulated as they are… — Warren Farrell Copy Share Image
Practically, every defense lawyer knows that the jury desperately wants to hear from the defendant and that the only reason not to… — Lawrence O'Donnell Copy Share Image
Trial by jury is part of that bright constellation which has gone before us and guided our steps through an age of… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Our civilization has decided that determining the guilt or innocence of men is a thing too important to be trusted to trained… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
If rowing is a trial then the ergometer is the courtroom, the meter is the jury. And an honest jury at that,… — Barry S. Strauss Copy Share Image
The object of any tyrant would be to overthrow or diminish trial by jury, for it is the lamp that shows that… — Patrick Devlin, Baron Devlin Copy Share Image
The Federal Building's large Ceremonial Courtroom, reserved for show trials, is veneered in executive teak. Bench, counsel tables, jury boxes, entrances, and… — Shana Alexander Copy Share Image
The best jury of your peers that you’ll ever find is…well, you. Only you know what you’re capable of and what you… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
Three features mark the Anglo-American system as different from all others. One is the extent to which our law is formed in… — Charles Rembar Copy Share Image
He that wrongs a friend Wrongs himself more, and ever bears about A silent court of justice in his breast, Himself the… — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
An optimist is somebody who thinks our various political and social systems, schools and churches, support groups and Boy Scout troops, jury… — Jack McDevitt Copy Share Image
I'm no idealist to believe firmly in the integrity of our courts and in the jury system - that is no ideal… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
If I had killed somebody, it wouldn't have had so much appeal to the press, you see? But f-ing, you see, and… — Roman Polanski Copy Share Image
I did answer all of the questions put to me today, ... Nothing in my testimony in any way contradicted the strong… — John Podesta Copy Share Image
A pun does not commonly justify a blow in return. But if a blow were given for such cause, and death ensued,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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