Cigar Quote by H. L. Mencken

The humorist who invented trial by jury played a colossal practical joke upon the world, but since we have the system we ought to…

— Mark Twain

It is the duty of the Judge in criminal trials to take care that the verdict of the jury is not founded upon any…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“One of the jurors had a pencil that squeaked. This of course, Alice could not stand, and she went round the court and got…

— Lewis Carroll

The law does not require a man to cease to be a man, and act without regard to consequences, when he becomes a juror.

— Lysander Spooner

Jurors realize that instead of having to make that terrible decision (voting for the death penalty), they can vote to put someone in prison…

— Robert Falcon Scott

One point is certain, that truth is one and immutable; until the jurors all agree, they cannot all be right.

— Washington Irving

Jurors want courtroom lawyers to have some compassion and be nice.

— Johnnie Cochran

Evidence of defendants' lavish lifestyles is often used to provide a motive for fraud. Jurors sometimes wonder why an executive making tens of millions…

— Alex Berenson

[N]o American should retreat an inch on the right of jurors to acquit if they perceive the law or its administration to be unjust.

— Charley Reese

I am not in favor of making voters or jurors of Negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office.

— Abraham Lincoln

Physicians ought not to give their judgment of religion, for the same reason that butchers are not admitted to be jurors upon life and…

— Jonathan Swift

“The compensation question was where they had to deliberate the most. “Probably took three or four hours to just settle on a number,” Tom…

— Kelly Loudenberg

Jurors should acquit, even against the judge's instruction . . . if exercising their judgment with discretion and honesty they have a clear conviction…

— Alexander Hamilton

To vest a few fallible men — prosecutors, judges, jurors — with vast powers of literary or artistic censorship, to convert them into what…

— Jerome Frank

Global warming ... may be a plaintiff lawyer's dream. And it's interesting, in a perverse way, to imagine how a jury in 2050 might…

— David Ignatius