Ruth Bader Ginsburg Quotes

Trial by jury, the best of all safeguards for the person, the property, and the fame of every individual.

Trial by jury of facts where they arise is one of the greatest securities of the lives, liberties and estates of the people.

The ancient mode of trial by jury ... ought to remain sacred and inviolable.

Trial by jury is the inherent and invaluable right of every British subject in these colonies

Standing up on the right to trial by jury is something that, really, a lot of people should agree with, you know, both on the Right and the Left.

It is impossible to find twelve fair men in all the world.

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.

I have faith in the jury system.

I always received much more satisfaction as a defense attorney in obtaining an acquittal for a client than I ever have as a D.A. in obtaining a conviction. All my interests and sympathies tend to be on the side of the individual as opposed to the state.

I don't like juries having the wool pulled over their eyes. I don't think that's what the Constitution is about.

I have great faith in the jury system.

Wherever they have been arraigned, a plain charge has been exhibited against them. They have had an impartial trial and have been permitted to make their defense.

In a democratic country, when a man is accused, he's accused from a document issued by the public attorney.

I had faith in the concept and the theory that all Americans are endowed with the right to a fair trial and I would be fairly judged and fairly tried.

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.

Believe it or not, there are people who want to be on juries.

An important and fundamental premise of the American judicial system is the presumption of innocence, that is until proven guilty.

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

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

It is high time that we remembered that the Constitution, as amended, speaks not only of the freedom of speech but also of trial by jury instead of trial by accusation. Whether it be a criminal prosecution in court or a character prosecution in the Senate, there is little practical distinction when the life of a person has been ruined.

By the time our Constitution was written, jury trials in criminal cases had been in existence in England for several centuries and carried impressive credentials traced by many back to Magna Carta.

I believe in the jury system.

In societies that profess some respect for law, suspects are apprehended and brought to fair trial. I stress 'suspects.'

While not explicitly articulated in the Constitution, the presumption of innocence has, through Supreme Court opinions, become a fundamental tenet of our criminal-justice system, and rightly so.

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