Jury System Quotes

#1. I have great faith in the jury system.

Judge Mills Lane

#2. I certainly believe it's over for the jury system, but we won't admit it for a while.

Joseph Wambaugh

#3. No political party can ever make prohibition effective. A political party implies an adverse, an opposing, political party. To enforce criminal statutes implies substantial unanimity in the community. This is the result of the jury system. Hence the futility of party prohibition.

Rutherford B. Hayes

#4. The jury system has come to stand for all we mean by English justice. The scrutiny of 12 honest jurors provides defendants and plaintiffs alike a safeguard from arbitrary perversion of the law.

Winston Churchill

#5. Warfare ... is just an invention, older and more widespread than the jury system, but none the less an invention.

Margaret Mead

#6. The jury system puts a ban upon intelligence and honesty and a premium upon ignorance, stupidity and perjury.

Mark Twain

#7. The jury system was somewhat of an anomaly, like everything else in the law.

Kenneth Eade

#8. I have faith in the jury system.

Nancy Grace

#9. We operate under a jury system in this country, and as much as we complain about it, we have to admit that we know of no better system, except possibly flipping a coin.

Dave Barry

#10. We have a criminal jury system which is superior to any in the world and it's efficiency is only marred by the difficulty of finding twelve men every day who don't know anything and can't read-

Mark Twain

#11. It wasn't just Adnan being indicted at this grand jury proceeding, it wasn't just him being prosecuted. His faith, his ethnicity, his community--they were all on trial.

Rabia Chaudry

#12. Amtrak is extremely important to the economy of Southern Illinois and I will continue to work with state and local leaders and my colleagues in Congress to secure the necessary funding to maintain full service.

Jerry Costello

#13. Love means giving up - yielding my preferences, comfort, goals, security, money, energy, or time for the benefit of someone else.

Rick Warren

#14. Lukewarm people call "radical" what Jesus expected of all His followers.

Francis Chan

#15. The great thing about our system of democracy is when they call you for jury duty, you have to come ... It's an honor and a privilege. I was called and I've got to be here.

Antonio Villaraigosa

#16. Most men are of naught more use in their lives but as machines for turning food into sh*t.

Leonardo Da Vinci

#17. Men play at tragedy because they do not believe in the reality of the tragedy which is actually being staged in the civilised world.

Jose Ortega Y Gasset

#18. History shows a typical progression of information technologies: from somebody's hobby to somebody's industry; from jury-rigged contraption to slick production marvel; from a freely accessible channel to one strictly controlled by a single corporation or cartel-from open to closed system.

Tim Wu

#19. In our system, we leave questions of fact to a jury. But to render a verdict, a jury must know the law. For this, we rely upon jury instructions. Instructions are supposed to translate the law into lay terms that the jury can apply to the facts as they determine them.

Alafair Burke

#20. In lieu of those checks and balances central to our legal system,
non-citizens face an executive that is now investigator, prosecutor,
judge, jury and jailer or executioner. In an Orwellian twist, Bush's
order calls this Soviet-style abomination 'a full and fair trial.

William Safire

#21. I want to be someone worthy of you.

Sara Raasch

#22. It is necessary, if one would read aright, that he should read at least two newspapers, representing both sides of important subjects.

Henry Ward Beecher

#23. You think you're going to impress an American jury with [your] words? In the eyes of the Americans, you're doomed. Just looking at you in an orange suit, chains, and being Muslim and Arabic is enough to convict you.

Mohamedou Ould Slahi

#24. Some people, when they lose it, they scream, they fight. I hope that would be me

Amie Kaufman

#25. When the jury came in, it didn't just disappoint me it shook the foundations of my beliefs, it shook the foundations of my beliefs in the justice system, in human beings, in my abilities and judgement and in my sense of reality. It just blew me away emotionally and psychologically.

David Rudolf

#26. Our tribe unraveled like a coarse rope, frayed at either end as the old and new among us were taken.

Louise Erdrich

#27. We must learn that to enjoy happiness we must conscientiously and continuously seek to spread happiness. Selfishness is suicidal to happiness.

B.C. Forbes

#28. Cross-examination is beyond any doubt the greatest legal engine ever invented for the discovery of truth ... Cross-examination, not trial by jury, is the great and permanent contribution of the Anglo-American system of law to improved methods of trial-procedure.

John Henry Wigmore

#29. I pretended I had urgent business at the prosecutor's table which, in one of The System's obvious tells, was always millimeters from the jury box.

Sergio De La Pava

#30. 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

#31. Over the river and through the woods, grandma has fallen down. The police save the day, and haul me away, from the shitty all-white town.

Amy Harmon

#32. These new bands sound like Gang of Four - if Gang of Four sucked.

Carrie Brownstein

#33. It would be enough for me to have the system of a jury of twelve versus the system of one judge as a basis for preferring the U.S. to the Soviet Union. I would prefer the country you can leave to the country you cannot.

Joseph Brodsky

#34. All I did in Chicago was to exercise my legal right to speak on my own behalf and I was given four years in jail as a result. But I think the most serious injustice perpetrated by the court system in America is the inability of a black man to get a jury of his peers.

Bobby Seale