Mark Twain Quotes

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.

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

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.

I have great faith in the jury system.

I believe in the jury system.

Our civilization has decided that determining the guilt or innocence of men is a thing too important to be trusted to trained men. When it wants a library catalogued, or the solar system discovered, or any trifle of that kind, it uses up its specialists. But when it wishes anything done which is really serious, it collects twelve of the ordinary men standing round. The same thing was done, if I remember right, by the Founder of Christianity.

The one place where a man ought to get a square deal is in a courtroom, be he any color of the rainbow, but people have a way of carrying their resentments right into a jury box.

Describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial: These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.

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

Trials by the adversarial contest must in time go the way of the ancient trial by battle and blood.

I have faith in the jury system.

I got put on jury duty, which is where I learned how to write.

A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.

See, justice is a joke in this country, and it stinks of its hypocricy.

Serving jury duty is a fascinating little slice of life, with its motley crew of personalities.

There are very few countries in the world where we have a jury system as we all know.

The courtroom oath—to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth—is applicable only to witnesses... because the American justice system is built on a foundation of not telling the whole entire truth.

American political opportunities are heavily loaded against those who are simultaneously intelligent and honest.

Money can buy the necessary police order. Justice is sold to the highest bidder

Women should not be allowed on juries where the accused is a stud.

The biggest fairy tale is that justice works because it doesn't.

The humorist who invented trial by jury played a colossal practical joke upon the world, but since we have the system we ought to try and respect it. A thing which is not thoroughly easy to do, when we reflect that by command of the law a criminal juror must be an intellectual vacuum, attached to a melting heart and perfectly macaronian bowels of compassion.

The civil jury is a valuable safeguard to liberty.

I see, these books are probably law books, and it is an essential part of the justice dispensed here that you should be condemned not only in innocence but also in ignorance.

In my mind, he was guilty of no error - he was chargeable with no exaggeration - he was betrayed by his fancy into no metaphor, who once said that all we see about us, Kings, Lords, and Commons, the whole machinery of the State, all the apparatus of the system, and its varied workings, end in simply bringing twelve good men into a box.