W. C. Fields Quotes

I have faith in the jury system.

I have great faith in the jury system.

I believe in the jury system.

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.

Trial by jury slows the wheels of justice.

Every man may think his own cause just till it be heard and judged.

Our criminal justice system was designed to be fair and is the fairest system known to man.

I would rather have my fate in the hands of 23 representative citizens of the county [the grand jury] than in the hands of a politically appointed judge.

A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.

In the criminal justice community, as a judge, being tough is not enough. You have to be fair.

Why do we love this trial by jury? Because it prevents the hand of oppression from cutting you off.

The Sixth Amendment secures to persons charged with crime the right to be tried by an impartial jury reflecting a fair cross-section of the community.

We are not living up to Thomas Jefferson's idea of what a trial by jury means.

The good judge is not he who does hair-splitting justice to every allegation, but who, aiming at substantial justice, rules something intelligible of the guidance of suitors.

Thou shalt not ration justice.

If justice is supposed to be fair, than any justice system you would hope is based on fairness.

This is the time that I really miss being in my courtroom because I believe that that's the last place in this country where there's supposed to be fairness.

The United States and the European Union do want to have a rule of law, and that rule of law should be for a fair trial. And that fair trial needs to have an impartial jury.

When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty.

I spent my time trying to understand grand jury procedure - a topic about which I never before had the slightest interest.

Justice should remove the bandage from her eyes long enough to distinguish between the vicious and the unfortunate.

The trial by jury is a trial by 'the country,' in contradistinction to a trial by the government. The jurors are drawn by lot from the mass of the people, for the very purpose of having all classes of minds and feelings, that prevail among the people at large, represented in the jury.

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

It takes courage to sit on a jury. How many of us want to decide the fate of another person's life or freedom? How many of us want to hold that kind of power in our hands?