Best Jury Wisdom
254 Jury quotes by 199 unique authors
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There is no such thing as an impartial jury because there are no impartial people. There are people that argue on the web for hours…
— Jon Stewart
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There are some who think that the government is limited in how many corruption cases it can bring against Wall Street, because juries can't understand…
— Matt Taibbi
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When you hear in the tape recordings Nixon's own voice saying, We have to stonewall, We have to lie to the Grand Jury, We have…
— Bob Woodward
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It's rare to find someone excited over jury duty. If they're out there, I've never met them. Not a one. When the summons for jury…
— Regina Brett
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Personally, I think it is possible to build a society that is moral on a nonreligious basis, but the jury is still out on that.
— Frans de Waal
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Fine, you do that, and you tell them that at the very first opportunity, I'm coming down there and killing all of them. Mass murder.…
— Nora Roberts
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Raise your hand if you had no idea you’d see so much nudity in one week of jury duty.” Twelve hands flew straight into the…
— Julie James
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Along with voting, jury duty, and paying taxes, goofing off is one of the central obligations of American citizenship.
— Sarah Vowell
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Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, exhibit number one is what the seraphs, the misinformed, simple, noble-winged seraphs, envied. Look at this tangle of thorns.
— Vladimir Nabokov
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The world is not a courtroom There is no judge no jury no plaintiff. This is a caravan filled with eccentric beings telling wondrous stories…
— Saadi
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After it's all over, the early childhood, a chain of birthdays woven with candlelight, piles of presents, voices of relatives singing and praising your promise…
— Virginia C. Andrews
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A nation that does not read much does not know much. And a nation that does not know much is more likely to make poor…
— Jim Trelease
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Jury - A group of 12 people, who, having lied to the judge about their health, hearing, and business engagements, have failed to fool him.
— H. L. Mencken
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The jury is supposed to be twelve peers, but technically that would mean every single person on the jury should have Asperger's syndrome, because then…
— Jodi Picoult
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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 want to be.
— Richelle Mead
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We have a criminal jury system which is superior to any in the world and it's efficiency is only marred by the difficulty of finding…
— Mark Twain
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I do not apologize for advertising. I think it is as vital to the preservation of freedom in my country as the free exercise of…
— Unknown Author
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Freedom of religion, freedom of the press, freedom of person under protection of habeas corpus; and trial by juries impartially selected, these principles form the…
— Thomas Jefferson
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If the author of the Declaration of Independence were to utter such a sentiment today, the Post Office Department could exclude him from the mail,…
— Frank I. Cobb
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By a declaration of rights, I mean one which shall stipulate freedom of religion, freedom of the press, freedom of commerce against monopolies, trial by…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Of the liberty of conscience in matters of religious faith, of speech and of the press; of the trial by jury of the vicinage in…
— James Monroe
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Orchids were not made by an ideal engineer; they are jury-rigged from a limited set of available components.
— Stephen Jay Gould
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Drone attacks subvert the rule of law - we become judge, jury, and executioner - at the push of a button.
— Mark McKinnon
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Bill Clinton was impeached primarily for criminal conduct: lying under oath and misleading a federal grand jury about his affair with Monica Lewinsky. Nixon would…
— Jonathan Turley
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Serving jury duty is a fascinating little slice of life, with its motley crew of personalities.
— Nina Garcia
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