Contribution Quote by John Henry Wigmore

Cross-examination is the greatest legal engine ever invented for the discovery of truth. You can do anything with a bayonet except sit on it.…

— John Henry Wigmore

I was originally going to be a lawyer, and the only thing I remember from the art of cross-examination is - you can see…

— James Lipton

The cross is the place where the Judge takes the Judgment.

— Timothy Keller

The cross is going to judge everything in your life: your eating, your drinking, your sleeping, your spending, your talking. Everything is cross-examined!

— Leonard Ravenhill

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

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 cross solved our problem by first revealing our real problem, our universal pattern of scapegoating and sacrificing others. The cross exposes forever the…

— Richard Rohr

Juries are not computers. They are composed of human beings who evaluate evidence differently.

— Alan Dershowitz

A friend of mine who passed through a most severe trial, when I discussed it with him, he said simply, if it’s fair, it…

— Neal A. Maxwell

Trial by jury is part of that bright constellation which has gone before us and guided our steps through an age of revolution and…

— Thomas Jefferson

The jury system has come to stand for all we mean by English justice. The scrutiny of 12 honest jurors provides defendants and plaintiffs…

— Winston Churchill

When you think about it, a trial is not really about what the truth is, it's about which barrister is better at persuading those…

— Nicholas Hammond