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“There are some who think that the government is limited in how many corruption cases it can bring against Wall Street, because juries can't understand the complexity of the financial schemes involved. But in 'U.S.A. v. Carollo,' that turned out not to be true.”

Thinking Government Cases Streets Wall Involved Financial Corruption Being True Complexity Schemes Jury

Author:Matt Taibbi

“I hardly expected the grand jury to sustain me, after they saw everything different from what it had been while I was there. Yet they did, and their report to the court advises all the changes made that I had proposed.”

Made Different Saws Court Expected Reports Advise Jury Grand Jury

Book:The Collected Works of Nellie Bly (Annotated)

Source: The Collected Works of Nellie Bly (Annotated)

“When you hear in the tape recordings Nixon's own voice saying, We have to stonewall, We have to lie to the Grand Jury, We have to pay burglars a million dollars, it's all too clear the horror of what went on.”

Lying Literature Voice Pay Millions Clear Horror Dollars Tape Jury Million Dollars Burglars Grand Jury

Author:Bob Woodward

“It's rare to find someone excited over jury duty. If they're out there, I've never met them. Not a one. When the summons for jury duty arrives in the mail, how many people scream, 'Yes!' and run to clear the calendar? None. Our first and only reaction is, 'Oh, no,' quickly followed by, 'How can I get out of this?'”

People Ifs Firsts Running Clear Duty Mets Excited Reactions Scream Mail Jury Calendars Jury Duty

Author:Regina Brett

“Personally, I think it is possible to build a society that is moral on a nonreligious basis, but the jury is still out on that.”

Thinking Stills Moral Bases Jury

Author:Frans de Waal

“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.”

Country Enough Would Be Judging Bases Unions Soviet Twelve Soviet Union Versus Exile Jury

Book:Joseph Brodsky: Conversations

Source: Joseph Brodsky: Conversations

“Fine, you do that, and you tell them that at the very first opportunity, I'm coming down there and killing all of them. Mass murder. And after they're all dead, I'm going to kick the bodies around, dance on top of them, and sing a happy song. No jury will convict me.”

Firsts Body Song Opportunity Fine Mass Murder Killing Kicks Jury Convicts

Book:J.D. Robb The IN DEATH Collection

Source: J.D. Robb The IN DEATH Collection

“Raise your hand if you had no idea you’d see so much nudity in one week of jury duty.” Twelve hands flew straight into the air. And unbelievably, Payton laughed.”

Ifs Ideas Hands Air Week Duty Raises No Idea Laughed Twelve Jury Flew Nudity Jury Duty

Book:Practice Makes Perfect

Source: Practice Makes Perfect

“Along with voting, jury duty, and paying taxes, goofing off is one of the central obligations of American citizenship.”

Duty Taxes Obligation Voting Citizenship Jury Paying Taxes Jury Duty American Citizenship Goofing Off

Book:The Partly Cloudy Patriot

Source: The Partly Cloudy Patriot

“Mr. Buckley, let me explain it this way. And I'll do so very carefully & slowly so that even you will understand it. If I was the sheriff, I would not have arrested him. If I was on the grand jury, I would not have indicted him. If I was the judge, I would not try him. If I was the D.A., I would not prosecute him. If I was on the trial jury, I would vote to give him a key to the city, a plaque to hang on his wall, & I would send him home to his family. And, Mr. Buckley, if my daughter is ever raped, I hope I have the guts to do what he did.”

Ifs Way Giving Trying Home Cities Judging Wall Keys Daughter Vote Let Me Trials Guts My Daughter Arrested Jury Sheriffs Grand Jury

Author:John Grisham

“If you violate Nature's laws you are your own prosecuting attorney, judge, jury, and hangman.”

Ifs Law Environment Judging Green Environmental Pollution Ecology Laws Of Nature Jury Attorney Nature And Environment Save Mother Earth Earth And Nature Hangman Green Living Prosecuting Judge And Jury

Author:Luther Burbank

“Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, exhibit number one is what the seraphs, the misinformed, simple, noble-winged seraphs, envied. Look at this tangle of thorns.”

Looks Simple Numbers Noble Gentleman Jury Thorns Exhibits Envied Ladies And Gentlemen

Book:The Annotated Lolita: Revised and Updated

Source: The Annotated Lolita: Revised and Updated

“The world is not a courtroom There is no judge no jury no plaintiff. This is a caravan filled with eccentric beings telling wondrous stories about God.”

World Stories Judging Filled Jury Eccentric Wondrous Courtroom Caravans

Author:Saadi

“After it's all over, the early childhood, a chain of birthdays woven with candlelight, piles of presents, voices of relatives singing and praising your promise and future, after the years of schooling, fitting yourself into different size desks, memorizing, reciting, reporting, and performing for jury after jury of teachers, counselors, and administrators, you still feel inadequate, alone, vulnerable, and naked in a world that can be unforgiving and terribly demanding.”

“A nation that does not read much does not know much. And a nation that does not know much is more likely to make poor choices in the home, the marketplace, the jury box, and the voting booth. And those decisions ultimately affect the entire nation...the literate and illiterate.”

Knows Doe Home Choices Nations Decision Poor Boxes Voting Marketplace Jury Illiterate Poor Choices

Book:The Read-Aloud Handbook: Sixth Edition

Source: The Read-Aloud Handbook: Sixth Edition

“Jury - A group of 12 people, who, having lied to the judge about their health, hearing, and business engagements, have failed to fool him.”

People Groups Judging Fool Hearing Engagement Lied Jury

Author:H. L. Mencken

“The jury is supposed to be twelve peers, but technically that would mean every single person on the jury should have Asperger's syndrome, because then they'd really understand me.”

Should Mean Persons Should Have Supposed To Be Twelve Peers Jury Single Person Syndromes Understand Me Aspergers Asperger's Syndrome

Book:House Rules: A Novel

Source: House Rules: A Novel

“The best jury of your peers that you’ll ever find is…well, you. Only you know what you’re capable of and what you want to be.”

Knows Want Wells Capable What You Want Peers Jury

Book:Succubus Heat

Source: Succubus Heat

“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-”

Knows Men World Humor Funny Judging Findings Humorous Difficulty Criminals Superiors Twelve Efficiency Jury Criminal Justice

Author:Mark Twain

“I do not apologize for advertising. I think it is as vital to the preservation of freedom in my country as the free exercise of publishing a newspaper or the free exercise of building a church or the free exercise of the right of trial by jury.”

Thinking Country Church Business Building Exercise Newspapers Trials Advertising Publishing Apologizing Preservation Jury Trial By Jury

Author:Thomas Dillon

“Freedom of religion, freedom of the press, freedom of person under protection of habeas corpus; and trial by juries impartially selected, these principles form the bright constellation which has gone before us, and guided our steps through an age of revolution and reformation.”

“If the author of the Declaration of Independence were to utter such a sentiment today, the Post Office Department could exclude him from the mail, grand juries could indict him for sedition and criminal syndicalism, legislative committees could seize his private papers and United States Senators would be clamoring for his deportation that he should be sent back to live with the rest of the terrorists.”

“By a declaration of rights, I mean one which shall stipulate freedom of religion, freedom of the press, freedom of commerce against monopolies, trial by juries in all cases, no suspensions of the habeas corpus, no standing armies. These are fetters against doing evil which no honest government should decline.”

Source: Jefferson on Freedom: Wisdom, Advice, and Hints on Freedom, Democracy, and the American Way

“Of the liberty of conscience in matters of religious faith, of speech and of the press; of the trial by jury of the vicinage in civil and criminal cases; of the benefit of the writ of habeas corpus; of the right to keep and bear arms.... If these rights are well defined, and secured against encroachment, it is impossible that government should ever degenerate into tyranny.”

“Orchids were not made by an ideal engineer; they are jury-rigged from a limited set of available components.”

Made Evolution Ideals Available Engineers Components Jury Rigged Orchids

Book:The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History

Source: The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History

“If a jury of your peers finds you not guilty, I will reinstate you back into baseball.”

Ifs Baseball Guilty Peers Jury Not Guilty

Author:Kenesaw Mountain Landis

“Give me the steady, uniform, unshaken security of constitutional freedom. Give me the right to be tried by a jury of my own neighbors, and to be taxed by my own representatives only. What will become of the law and courts of justice without this? The shadow may remain, but the substance will be gone. I would die to preserve the law upon a solid foundation; but take away liberty, and the foundation is destroyed.”

Giving May Law Dies Justice My Own Liberty Gone Security Shadow Give Me Foundation Court Neighbor Destroyed Substance Preserves Steady Representatives Uniforms Jury Solid Foundation

Author:Alexander Hamilton

“He that wrongs a friend Wrongs himself more, and ever bears about A silent court of justice in his breast, Himself the judge and jury, and himself The prisoner at the bar ever condemned.”

Friendship Justice Silence Judging Bears Court Silent Bars Breasts Prisoner Jury Judge And Jury

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)

“And ye, who have met with Adversity's blast, And been bow'd to the earth by its fury; To whom the Twelve Months, that have recently pass'd Were as harsh as a prejudiced jury - Still, fill to the Future! and join in our chime, The regrets of remembrance to cozen, And having obtained a New Trial of Time, Shout in hopes of a kindlier dozen.”

Stills Earth Regret Months Mets Adversity Trials Holiday Dozen Twelve Bows New Year Harsh Remembrance Fury Jury Blast January Happy New Year Chimes

Book:The New Monthly Magazine

Source: The New Monthly Magazine

“When it comes to sports I am not particularly interested. Generally speaking, I look upon them as dangerous and tiring activities performed by people with whom I share nothing except the right to trial by jury.”

People Looks Sports Share Dangerous Activity Trials Look Up Motivational Sports Tire Jury Trial By Jury

Book:The Fran Lebowitz Reader

Source: The Fran Lebowitz Reader

“We've got to abide by the rules. We have to protect it. The game of golf at a professional level is so clean. We are our own judge, jury and executioner. If we don't do what we think is right, the game might get away from us.”

Ifs Thinking Might Games Levels Judging Protect Clean Golf Get Away Jury Executioners

Author:Greg Norman

“The jury passing on the prisoner's life may in the sworn twelve have a thief or two guiltier than him they try.”

Trying May Two Justice Passing Passings Prisoner Twelve Thieves Jury Measure For Measure Passing On Judge And Jury

Author:William Shakespeare

“Only Lawyers and mental defectives are automatically exempt for jury duty.”

Law Duty Lawyer Sarcastic Jury Jury Duty

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“Some people try to get out of jury duty by lying. You don't have to lie. Tell the judge the truth. Tell him you'd make a terrific juror because you can spot guilty people.”

People Trying Lying Judging Duty Guilty Spots Terrific Jury Jurors Jury Duty

Author:George Carlin

“Both in thy private sessions, and the universal assizes, thou shalt be sure of the same Judge, the same jury, the same witnesses, the same verdict. How certain thou art to die, thou knowest; how soon to die, thou knowest not. Measure not thy life with the longest; that were to piece it out with flattery. Thou canst name no living man, not the sickest, which thou art sure shall die before thee.”

Men Art Christian Certain Dies Names Pieces Judging Blessing Universal Christian Life Witness Thee Flattery Session Jury Verdict Chastisement

Author:Thomas Adams

“Judges don't age. Time decorates them.”

Humor Age Funny Judging Humorous Jury

Book:Four Plays

Source: Four Plays

“The court is like a palace of marble; it's composed of people very hard and very polished.”

People Hard Humor Funny Success Law Judging Humorous Ears Court Lawyer Palaces Jury Marble Polished

Author:Jean de la Bruyere

“Someday someone will write a pathology of experimental physics and bring to light all those swindles which subvert our reason, beguile our judgement and, what is worse, stand in the way of any practical progress. The phenomena must be freed once and for all from their grim torture chamber of empiricism, mechanism, and dogmatism; they must be brought before the jury of man's common sense.”

“I consider trial by jury as the only anchor ever yet imagined by man, by which a government can be held to the principles of its constitution.”

Men Government Law Justice Principles Constitution Trials Civil Rights Jury Anchors Rule Of Law Property Rights Trial By Jury Legal Rights Jury Duty Nullification Judge And Jury Trial Lawyers

Book:The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence

Source: The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence

“It is left... to the juries, if they think the permanent judges are under any bias whatever in any cause, to take on themselves to judge the law as well as the fact. They never exercise this power but when they suspect partiality in the judges; and by the exercise of this power they have been the firmest bulwarks of English liberty.”

Ifs Thinking Wells Has Beens Facts Law Left Causes Liberty Judging Exercise Civil Rights Permanent Suspects Bias Jury Partiality

Book:The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, cont

Source: The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, cont

“If the question [before justices of the peace] relate to any point of public liberty, or if it be one of those in which the judges may be suspected of bias, the jury undertake to decide both law and fact.”

Ifs May Facts Law Justice Liberty Judging Civil Rights Relate Bias Jury Jury Duty Nullification Judge And Jury

Book:The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Notes on Virginia II, Correspondence 1782-1786

Source: The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Notes on Virginia II, Correspondence 1782-1786

“There has been no clearer principle of English or American constitutional law than that, in criminal cases, it is not only the power and duty of juries to judge what are the facts, what is the law, and what is the moral intent of the accused; but that it is also their power, and their primary and paramount duty, to judge the justice of the law, and to hold all laws invalid, that are, in their opinion, unjust or oppressive, and find all persons guiltless in violating, or resisting the execution of, such laws.”

“A jury too often has at least one member more ready to hang the panel than to hang the traitor.”

Humor Funny Success Law Ready Judging Members Humorous Lawyer Jury Traitor

Book:The Lincoln encyclopedia: the spoken and written words of A. Lincoln arranged for ready reference

Source: The Lincoln encyclopedia: the spoken and written words of A. Lincoln arranged for ready reference

“To exclude all jurors who would be in the slightest way effected by the prospect of the death penalty would be to deprive the defendant of the impartial jury to which he or she is entitled under the law.”

Way Would Be Law Entitled Penalties Death Penalty Jury Jurors

Author:Byron White

“The object of any tyrant would be to overthrow or diminish trial by jury, for it is the lamp that shows that freedom lives.”

Shows Would Be Objects Trials Tyranny Tyrants Diminish Lamps Jury Trial By Jury

Author:Patrick Devlin, Baron Devlin

“The thing with Catholicism, the same as all religions, is that it teaches what should be, which seems rather incorrect. This is what should be. Now, if you're taught to live up to a what should be that never existed - only an occult superstition, no proof of this should be - then you can sit on a jury and indict easily, you can cast the first stone, you can burn Adolf Eichmann, like that!”

Ifs Should Firsts Seems Religion Teach Taught Stones Casts Proof Catholicism Superstitions Jury Occult

Author:Lenny Bruce

“A man's rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.”

Men Three Rights Gun Boxes Jury Miscellaneous Ballots

Author:Frederick Douglass

“In America, freedom and justice have always come from the ballot box, the jury box, and when that fails, the cartridge box.”

America Justice Failing Gun Boxes Jury Ballots America Freedom

Author:Steve Symms

“We established however some, although not all its [self-government] important principles . The constitutions of most of our States assert, that all power is inherent in the people; that they may exercise it by themselves, in all cases to which they think themselves competent, (as in electing their functionaries executive and legislative, and deciding by a jury of themselves, in all judiciary cases in which any fact is involved,) or they may act by representatives, freely and equally chosen; that it is their right and duty to be at all times armed.”

Source: Jefferson: Political Writings

“Is the relinquishment of the trial by jury and the liberty of the press necessary for your liberty? Will the abandonment of your most sacred rights tend to the security of your liberty? Liberty, the greatest of all earlthy blessings - give us that precious jewel, and you may take every things else! . . . Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel.”

Giving May Freedom Attention Liberty Rights Security Blessing Approach Sacred Presses Trials Suspects Jealous Jewels Abandonment Jury Trial By Jury Precious Jewels

Author:Patrick Henry

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