Firsts Quote by Gerry Spence

Trial by jury must and shall be preserved! Amidst the throng of crude sacrilegisms ... that assail us nowadays in the legal sanctuary, none…

— John Henry Wigmore

I consider trial by jury as the only anchor ever yet imagined by man, by which a government can be held to the principles…

— Thomas Jefferson

I have many things to say. My every right, constitutional, civil, political and judicial has been tramped upon. I have not only had no…

— Susan B. Anthony

Jury lawlessness is the greatest corrective of law in its actual administration.

— Roscoe Pound

Trial by jury is a privilege of the highest and most beneficial nature [and] our most important guardian both of public and private liberty.…

— William Blackstone

Our liberty cannot be taken away unless the people are themselves accomplices.

— Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke

Trial by jury must be preserved. It is the best system ever invented for a free people in the world's history.

— John Henry Wigmore

What many of those who oppose the use of juries in civil trials seem to ignore is that the founders of our Nation considered…

— William Rehnquist

The civil jury is the most effective form of sovereignty of the people. It defies the aggressions of time and man. During the reigns…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

When I joined the UN War Crimes Tribunal, it was a realization of the dream of justice, that finally after Nuremberg, the UN is…

— Payam Akhavan

Is the relinquishment of the trial by jury and the liberty of the press necessary for your liberty? Will the abandonment of your most…

— Patrick Henry

“A nation will never be vanished by subjugation or oppression, unless they get used to.”

— M.F. Moonzajer