Best Jury Quotes
254 Jury quotes by 199 unique authors
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A man's rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.
— Frederick Douglass
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In America, freedom and justice have always come from the ballot box, the jury box, and when that fails, the cartridge box.
— Unknown Author
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We established however some, although not all its [self-government] important principles . The constitutions of most of our States assert, that all power is inherent…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Is the relinquishment of the trial by jury and the liberty of the press necessary for your liberty? Will the abandonment of your most sacred…
— Patrick Henry
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I had thought I would be sentenced to death based on the emotions and anger toward me for the deaths on Sept. 11. But after…
— Zacarias Moussaoui
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Getting out of jury duty is easy. The trick is to say you're prejudiced against all races.
— Dan Castellaneta
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Ladies and gentlemen of the jury. It's not like the sheep was underage.
— Colin Mochrie
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God can judge me, I don't need a jury. Nothing standing in my way, like nothing's my security.
— Lil Wayne
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Jury verdicts, basketball games, and even music are enough to set off black rage, it seems,
— Ron Paul
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Trial by jury in civil causes,... trial by jury in criminal causes, [and] the benefits of the writ of habeas corpus... all stand on the…
— Richard Henry Lee
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Women should not be allowed on juries where the accused is a stud.
— Rush Limbaugh
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Anyone who clings to the historically untrue-and thoroughly immoral-doctrine that, 'violence never settles anything' I would advise to conjure the ghosts of Napoleon Bonaparte and…
— Robert A. Heinlein
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I will speak until I can no longer speak. I will speak as long as it takes, until the alarm is sounded from coast to…
— Rand Paul
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Describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial: These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
— Jeff Greenfield
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It is surely easier to confess a murder over a cup of coffee than in front of a jury.
— Friedrich Durrenmatt
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When the jury came in, it didn't just disappoint me it shook the foundations of my beliefs, it shook the foundations of my beliefs in…
— Unknown Author
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I'm no idealist to believe firmly in the integrity of our courts and in the jury system - that is no ideal to me, it…
— Harper Lee
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[It is] a historic step toward eliminating the shameful practice of racial discrimination in the selection of juries.
— Thurgood Marshall
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If I had killed somebody, it wouldn't have had so much appeal to the press, you see? But f-ing, you see, and the young girls.…
— Roman Polanski
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As a private person, I have a passion for landscape, and I have never seen one improved by a billboard. Where every prospect pleases, man…
— David Ogilvy
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I was sentenced to life plus 30 years by an all-White jury. What I saw in prison was wall-to-wall Black flesh in chains. Women caged…
— Assata Shakur
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Freedom of discussion is in England little else than the right to write or say anything which a jury of twelve shopkeepers think it expedient…
— A. V. Dicey
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I've resisted pronouncing a sentence before guilt is found. I still have this old-fashioned notion that even with people like Osama, who is very likely…
— Howard Dean
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Society's emissions of carbon dioxide may or may not turn out to have something significant to do with global warming-the jury is still out.
— Edward Teller
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I got put on jury duty, which is where I learned how to write.
— David O. Russell
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