Jury Quotes
254 quotes by 206 authors
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We operate under a jury system in this country, and as much as we complain about it, we have to admit that we know of…
— Dave Barry
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Good-looking individuals are treated better than homely ones in virtually every social situation, from dating to trial by jury.
— Martha Beck
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The jury had down right contempt for punk rock grass roots ethics.
— Jello Biafra
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I hardly expected the grand jury to sustain me, after they saw everything different from what it had been while I was there. Yet they…
— Nellie Bly
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It would be enough for me to have the system of a jury of twelve versus the system of one judge as a basis for…
— Joseph Brodsky
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If you violate Nature's laws you are your own prosecuting attorney, judge, jury, and hangman.
— Luther Burbank
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If a jury of your peers finds you not guilty, I will reinstate you back into baseball.
— Kenesaw Mountain Landis
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Give me the steady, uniform, unshaken security of constitutional freedom. Give me the right to be tried by a jury of my own neighbors, and…
— Alexander Hamilton
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He that wrongs a friend Wrongs himself more, and ever bears about A silent court of justice in his breast, Himself the judge and jury,…
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
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And ye, who have met with Adversity's blast, And been bow'd to the earth by its fury; To whom the Twelve Months, that have recently…
— Thomas Hood
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When it comes to sports I am not particularly interested. Generally speaking, I look upon them as dangerous and tiring activities performed by people with…
— Fran Lebowitz
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We've got to abide by the rules. We have to protect it. The game of golf at a professional level is so clean. We are…
— Greg Norman
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The jury passing on the prisoner's life may in the sworn twelve have a thief or two guiltier than him they try.
— William Shakespeare
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Only Lawyers and mental defectives are automatically exempt for jury duty.
— George Bernard Shaw
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Some people try to get out of jury duty by lying. You don't have to lie. Tell the judge the truth. Tell him you'd make…
— George Carlin
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Both in thy private sessions, and the universal assizes, thou shalt be sure of the same Judge, the same jury, the same witnesses, the same…
— Thomas Adams
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Someday someone will write a pathology of experimental physics and bring to light all those swindles which subvert our reason, beguile our judgement and, what…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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I consider trial by jury as the only anchor ever yet imagined by man, by which a government can be held to the principles of…
— Thomas Jefferson
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It is left... to the juries, if they think the permanent judges are under any bias whatever in any cause, to take on themselves to…
— Thomas Jefferson
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If the question [before justices of the peace] relate to any point of public liberty, or if it be one of those in which the…
— Thomas Jefferson
Who Wrote These Jury Quotes
206 authors contributed a total of 254 Jury Quotes, led by these top contributors: