Failing Quote by Stephen Ambrose

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

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

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

— John Henry Wigmore

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

— Roscoe Pound

Now it is clear, that if the government can exclude, on account either of their opinions or feelings, any persons thus drawn by lot,…

— Lysander Spooner

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

No one can just file a charge and go directly to a jury trial. That just cannot happen.

— Robert P. McCulloch

We are not living up to Thomas Jefferson's idea of what a trial by jury means.

— Glenne Headly

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

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

We operate under a jury system in this country, and as much as we complain about it, we have to admit that we know…

— Dave Barry