Government Quote by Lysander Spooner

If the jury have no right to judge of the justice of a law of the government, they plainly can do nothing to protect…

— Lysander Spooner

But for their right to judge of the law, and the justice of the law, juries would be no protection to an accused person,…

— Lysander Spooner

A slave has not the freedom even to do the right thing.

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Roscoe Pound

For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.

— Jonathan Swift

Law and justice are from time to time inevitably in conflict ... . The jury ... adjusts the general rule of law to the…

— John Henry Wigmore

A right to jury trial is granted to criminal defendants in order to prevent oppression by the Government.

— Byron White

When Judge Douglas says that whoever, or whatever community, wants slaves, they have a right to have them, he is perfectly logical if there…

— Abraham Lincoln

There has been no clearer principle of English or American constitutional law than that, in criminal cases, it is not only the power and…

— Lysander Spooner

The trial by jury might safely be introduced into a despotic government, if the jury were to exercise no right of judging of the…

— Lysander Spooner

“A jury is always a more orthodox body than any defendant brought before it; for blacks it is usually a whiter group, for poor…

— Howard Zinn

If the public are bound to yield obedience to laws to which they cannot give their approbation, they are slaves to those who make…

— Samuel Adams