Juror Quotes

#1. It is not only the juror's right, but his duty to find the verdict according to his own best understanding, judgment and conscience, though in direct opposition to the instruction of the court.

John Adams

#2. Right now I have the suspicion that the ace of diamonds is trapped forever, face down, beneath the king of diamonds, which is sneering at me like Juror Number Five, and my whole life feels like a similar misshuffle.

Daniel Handler

#3. 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

#4. I have carefully examined the evidences of the Christian religion, and if I was sitting as a juror upon its authenticity I would unhesitatingly give my verdict in its favor. I can prove its truth as clearly as any proposition ever submitted to the mind of man.

Alexander Hamilton

#5. The verdict of a jury is the a priori opinion of that juror who smokes the worst cigars.

H.L. Mencken

#6. We found out later that a lone Black juror had refused to convict us. He had heard us.

Assata Shakur

#7. Emotions play a vital part in the social transmission of news and information. Interest, happiness, disgust, surprise, sadness, anger, fear and contempt affect how some stories catch on and travel far wider than others.

Alfred Hermida

#8. Kiss my foot, sir; my face is for mouths of consequence.

Thomas Hardy

#9. You never can tell when a bad thing might make a good thing happen. I realized that good and bad were always there and always mixed up together in a tangle.

Ingrid Law

#10. I find it easier to believe in God than to believe Hamlet was deduced from the molecular structure of a mutton chop.

William F. Buckley Jr.

#11. Cowards live for the sake of living, but for heroes, life is a weapon, a thing to be spent, a gift to be given to the weak and the lost and the weary, even to the foolish and the cowardly.

N.D. Wilson

#12. You West Virginia girls are one tough breed," he said.
You got that right," I told him.

Jeannette Walls

#13. Record sales don't matter when the people who bought the records are dead and gone.

Chuck Klosterman

#14. Smile, it makes the day go faster.

Anonymous

#15. Sometimes a person can be more traumatized than he knows.

R.M. Greenaway

#16. When the commander-in-chief sends Americans to fight and die, it should be only to protect our vital national interests, not for his own personal, political gain.

Kathleen Troia McFarland

#17. I don't think people know 'Nosfuratu.'

Amy Heckerling

#18. Government is, by its very nature, a destroyer of liberties; the Obama administration, specifically, is promising to interfere with the economy and the health care system so profoundly that Washington will soon have us all in chains.

Thomas Frank