Exercise 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

Trial by jury. Live wherever you can make a living. How could a government based on such principles fail?

— Stephen Ambrose

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

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

The trial by jury is a trial by 'the country,' in contradistinction to a trial by the government. The jurors are drawn by lot…

— Lysander Spooner

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

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

— Byron White

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

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

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

— John Henry Wigmore

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

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