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Quotes about Jury


The fairest action of our human life Is scorning to revenge an injury; For who forgives without a further strife, His adversary's heart to him doth tie: And 'tis a firmer conquest, truly said, To win the heart than overthrow the head.

Lady Elizabeth Carew (Cary or Carey)

Your decision will cause him to be one way or another in a box.. either a cement one or a pine one (a jail or a coffin). Jonathan Shapiro, Muhammad's attorney to jury Some websites say that Muhammad was at Ft Lewis, a Muslim like other Muslims recruited by the US military for a black ops camp in Alabama.

Jonathan Shapiro

Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not.

Saiom Xenophon

Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.

Louis D. Brandeis

The house of every one is to him as his castle and fortress, as well for his defence against injury and violence, as for his repose.

Lord Edward Coke

One ungrateful man does an injury to all who are suffering. [Lat., Ingratus unus miseris omnibus nocet.]

Syrus (Publilius Syrus)

'Twas he Gave heat unto the injury, which returned Like a petard ill lighted, unto the bosom Of himn gave fire to it.

Francis Beaumont

It is better to receive than to do an injury. [Lat., Accipere quam facere injuiam praestat.]

Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero)

A strong sense of injury often gives point to the expression of our feelings. [Lat., Plerumque dolor etiam venustos facit.]

Pliny the Younger (Caius Caecilius Secundus)

Justice consists of doing no one injury, decency in giving no one offense.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

No greater injury can be done to any youth than to let him feel that because he belongs to this or that race he will be advanced in life regardless of his own merits or efforts.

Booker T. Washington

There are some cases. . . in which the sense of injury breeds --not the will to inflict injuries and climb over them as a ladder, but --a hatred of all injury.

George Eliot

Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily . . .

Thomas Szasz

It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it.

Francis Beaumont

An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.

Lord Chesterfield

What wilt thou do to thyself, who hast added insult to injury? [Lat., Quid facies tibi, Injuriae qui addideris contumeliam?]

Phaedrus (Thrace of Macedonia)

The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, And wretches hang that jurymen may dine.

Alexander Pope

Nature's laws affirm instead of prohibit. If you violate her laws, you are your own prosecuting attorney, judge, jury, and hangman.

Luther Burbank

I consider trial by jury as the only anchor yet imagined by man by which a government can be held to the principles of its constitution.

Thomas Jefferson

Justice consists of doing no one injury, decency in giving no one offense.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

The jury has the right to judge both the law as well as the fact in controversy.

John Jay

The jury has the right to determine both the law and the facts.

Samuel Chase

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, working reality.

Harper Lee

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

Robert Frost

To exclude all jurors who would be in the slightest way affected by the prospect of the death penalty would be to deprive the defendant of the impartial jury to which he or she is entitled under the law.

Byron R. White

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