Glenne Headly Quotes

I believe in the jury system.

I have faith in the jury system.

I have great faith in the jury system.

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

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

Trial by jury slows the wheels of justice.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

The trial by jury might safely be introduced into a despotic government, if the jury were to exercise no right of judging of the law, or the justice of the law.

The job of a justice is justice.

Courts, not mobs, must execute the penalties of the law.

The purpose of a jury is to guard against the exercise of arbitrary power—to make available the commonsense judgment of the community as a hedge against the over- zealous or mistaken prosecutor and in preference to the professional or perhaps overconditioned or biased response of a judge.

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

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.

China has not established the rule of law and thus there is no justice.

When juries refuse to convict on the basis of what they think are unjust laws, they are performing their duty as jurors..

There may sometimes be a mistake, but I think that the citizens of America who are sworn to uphold their duty in a jury setting are going to try to do their best to do that regardless of the consequences.

Juries are the constitutional institution designed to protect ordinary citizens against the wealthy and powerful.

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.

As I understand, the role of the federal judiciary, the role of our court system, is to provide justice.