(363 quotes found)
“The jury, passing on the prisoner's life, may in the sworn twelve have a thief or two guiltier than him they try”
William Shakespeare
“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
“Doubt yourself and you doubt everything you see. Judge yourself and you see judges everywhere. But if you listen to the sound of your own voice, you can rise above doubt and judgment. And you can see forever.”
Nancy Lopez
“Getting out of jury duty is easy. The trick is to say you're prejudiced against all races.”
Dan Castellaneta
“A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.”
Robert Frost
“You will be judges of the fact. You are the sole and exclusive judges of what the truth is. You will bring with you here your common sense.”
Russell R. Leggett
“The juries are our judges of all fact, and of law when they choose it.”
Thomas Jefferson
“We must remember that we have to make judges out of men, and that by being made judges their prejudices are not diminished and their intelligence is not increased”
Robert Green Ingersoll
“A jury is a group of twelve people of average ignorance”
Herbert Spencer
“''Write that down,'' the King said to the jury, and the jury eagerly wrote down all three dates on their slates, and then added them up, and reduced the answer to shillings and pence.”
Lewis Carroll
