Jury Quotes

254 quotes by 206 authors

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
Good-looking individuals are treated better than homely ones in virtually every social situation, from dating to trial by jury. — Martha Beck
The jury had down right contempt for punk rock grass roots ethics. — Jello Biafra
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
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
If you violate Nature's laws you are your own prosecuting attorney, judge, jury, and hangman. — Luther Burbank
If a jury of your peers finds you not guilty, I will reinstate you back into baseball. — Kenesaw Mountain Landis
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
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
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
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
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
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
Only Lawyers and mental defectives are automatically exempt for jury duty. — George Bernard Shaw
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
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
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
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
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
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

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