Of all my prosecutors ... not one is my peer, but each and all are my political sovereigns; and had your honor submitted my case t...o the jury, as was clearly your duty, then I should have had just cause of protest, for not one of those men was my peer; but, native or foreign born, white or black, rich or poor, educated or ignorant, sober or drunk, each and every man of them was my political superior; hence, in no sense, my peer.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I'm no idealist to believe firmly in the integrity of our courts and in the jury system--that is no ideal to me, it is a living, w...orking reality. Gentlemen, a court is no better than each man of you sitting before me on this jury. A court is only as sound as its jury, and a jury is only as sound as the men who make it up.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
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.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The thing with Catholicism, the same as all religions, is that it teaches what should be, which seems rather incorrect. This is "w...hat 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"Mthen you can sit on a jury and indict easily, you can cast the first stone, you can burn Adolf Eichmann, like that!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Critics generally come to be critics not by reason of their fitness for this, but of their unfitness for anything else. Books shou...ld be tried by a judge and jury as though they were a crime, and counsel should be heard on both sides.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"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.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"Let the jury consider their verdict," the King said, for about the twentieth time that day. "No, no!" said the Queen. "Sente...nce first--verdict afterwards." "Stuff and nonsense!" said Alice loudly. "The idea of having the sentence first!"LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
So the Snark found the verdict, although as it owned, It was spent with the toils of the day:... When it said the word 'GUILTY!' the Jury all groaned, And some of them fainted away.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I hate this shallow Americanism which hopes to get rich by credit, to get knowledge by raps on midnight tables, to learn the econo...my of the mind by phrenology, or skill without study, or mastery without apprenticeship, or the sale of goods through pretending that they sell, or power through making believe you are powerful, or through a packed jury or caucus, bribery and "repeating" votes, or wealth by fraud.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »