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• We have four boxes with which to defend our freedom: the soap box, the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.

  Larry McDonald

  Political, Liberty, Four

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• As a defense lawyer, he refused to condemn his clients. Everyone else in the system-the cops, the prosecutors, the juries and judges-would take care of that; they didn't need his help.

  Scott Turow

  Judging, Needs, Defense

  Scott Turow (2006). “Limitations”, p.56, Macmillan

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• In 1994 the U.S. Court of Appeals decided in the case of Oliver North to permit the release of grand jury evidence, because it had already been so thoroughly leaked

  Donella Meadows

  Permit, Release, Court

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• I believed there was enough evidence to go to trial. Grand jury said there wasn't. Okay, fine. Do I have a right to disagree with the grand jury? Many Americans believe O.J. Simpson was guilty. A jury said he wasn't. So I have as much right to question a jury as they do. Does it make somebody a racist? No! They just disagreed with the jury. So did I.

  Al Sharpton

  Believe, Doe, Racist

  "Talk:Al Sharpton speaks out on race, rights and what bothers him about his critics". Interview with David Shankbone, en.wikinews.org. December 3, 2007.

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• In America, freedom and justice have always come from the ballot box, the jury box, and when that fails, the cartridge box.

  Steve Symms

  Gun, America, Justice

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• I view myself primarily as a trial lawyer who happens to be writing, as opposed to a writer who happens to be a trial lawyer, so the audience is like a jury to me.

  Vincent Bugliosi

  Writing, Views, Trials

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• Is the relinquishment of the trial by jury and the liberty of the press necessary for your liberty? Will the abandonment of your most sacred rights tend to the security of your liberty? Liberty, the greatest of all earlthy blessings - give us that precious jewel, and you may take every things else! . . . Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel.

  Patrick Henry

  Freedom, Jealous, Blessing

  "Shall Liberty or Empire Be Sought?". Speech in the Virginia Ratifying Convention, June 5, 1788.

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• I did not see any major issues other than the jury substitutions. I can't know whether there's a problem there, until I read the transcript from the in-chambers conference, when those jurors were excused.

  Catherine Crier

  Issues, Problem, Conferences

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• Pay close attention to when you're being the real you & when you're trying to impress an invisible jury.

  Derek Sivers

  Real, Trying, Attention

  Derek Sivers (2015). “Anything You Want: 40 Lessons for a New Kind of Entrepreneur”, p.64, Penguin

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• God can judge me, I don't need a jury. Nothing standing in my way, like nothing's my security.

  Lil Wayne

  Judging, Needs, Way

  Song: Nightmares Of The Bottom, Album: Tha Carter IV, 2011

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• Jury verdicts, basketball games, and even music are enough to set off black rage, it seems.

  Ron Paul

  Basketball, Games, Black

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• If the federal constitution is to be construed so far in connection with the state constitutions, as to leave the trial by jury in civil causes, for instance, secured; on the same principles it would have left the trial by jury in criminal causes, the benefits of the writ of habeas corpus, etc. secured; they all stand on the same footing; they are the common rights of Americans, and have been recognized by the state constitutions.

  Richard Henry Lee

  Rights, Habeas Corpus, Causes

  "Letters from the Federal farmer to the Republican".

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• In lieu of those checks and balances central to our legal system, non-citizens face an executive that is now investigator, prosecutor, judge, jury and jailer or executioner. In an Orwellian twist, Bush's order calls this Soviet-style abomination 'a full and fair trial.'

  William Safire

  Order, Judging, Style

  "Essay; Seizing Dictatorial Power" by William Safire, www.nytimes.com. November 15, 2001.

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

  Rush Limbaugh

  Stupid, Hateful, Should

  "No 1,920 Rush Limbaugh" by Rush Limbaugh, www.theguardian.com. July 17, 2001.

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• Anyone who clings to the historically untrue-and thoroughly immoral-doctrine that, 'violence never settles anything' I would advise to conjure the ghosts of Napoleon Bonaparte and the Duke of Wellington and let them debate it. The ghost of Hitler could referee, and the jury might well be the Dodo, the Great Auk and the Passenger Pigeon. Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst. Breeds that forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and freedom.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Thinking, Issues, Never Settle

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Starship Troopers”, p.27, Penguin

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• I will speak until I can no longer speak. I will speak as long as it takes, until the alarm is sounded from coast to coast that our Constitution is important, that your rights to trial by jury are precious, that no American should be killed by a drone on American soil without first being charged with a crime, without first being found to be guilty by a court.

  Rand Paul

  America, Rights, Law

  FaceBook post by Rand Paul from Mar 06, 2013

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

  Jeff Greenfield

  People, Trials, Murder

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• It is surely easier to confess a murder over a cup of coffee than in front of a jury.

  Friedrich Durrenmatt

  Coffee, Cups, Murder

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• Case (Keenum) is going to be the quarterback. We’re going to give him a chance to see how he can perform. I think the jury is still out. He’s got a lot of ability. He’s shown some flashes of brilliance and then he’s shown some rookie mistakes. We’ve got to see if we can improve, eliminate those mistakes, minimize those mistakes and continue some of the outstanding play that (we’ve) seen and see whether we think that he can be a starting quarterback in the NFL. At this point, we really don’t know.

  Bob McNair

  Mistake, Thinking, Play

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• As a private person, I have a passion for landscape, and I have never seen one improved by a billboard. Where every prospect pleases, man is at his vilest when he erects a billboard. When I retire from Madison Avenue, I am going to start a secret society of masked vigilantes who will travel around the world on silent motor bicycles, chopping down posters at the dark of the moon. How many juries will convict us when we are caught in these acts of beneficent citizenship?

  David Ogilvy

  Passion, Dark, Moon

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• There was once a professor of law who said to his students. When you are fighting a case, if you have facts on your side hammer them into the jury, and if you have the law on your side hammer it into the judge. But if you have neither the facts nor the law, asked one of his listeners? Then hammer the hell into the table, answered the professor.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Fighting, Your Side, Law

  W. Somerset Maugham (2011). “A Writer's Notebook”, p.131, Random House

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• The juries are our judges of all fact, and of law when they choose it.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Law, Judging, Judgement

  Thomas Jefferson (1977). “The Portable Thomas Jefferson”, p.439, Penguin

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• Society's emissions of carbon dioxide may or may not turn out to have something significant to do with global warming-the jury is still out.

  Edward Teller

  May, Global Warming, Significant

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• The Oscar nominations are out, and they're so white a grand jury has decided not to indict them.

  Larry Wilmore

  White, Oscars, Nominations

  "'The Nightly Show With Larry Wilmore' Debuts In Slot Vacated By Stephen Colbert". "Fresh Air" with Dave Davies, www.npr.org. January 20, 2015.

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• By the laws of rectitude accused Persons, however atrocious their offences, are allowed to make their defence, and by a verdict of a Jury of their Peers, they are either convicted, or acquitted. I have some times thought that we Women are hardly dealt by since strictly speaking, we cannot legally be tried by our Peers, for men are not our Peers, and yet upon their breath our guilt or innocence depends— thus are our privileges in this, as in many other respects tyrannically abridged, and we are forced to yield to necessity.

  Judith Sargent Murray

  Men, Yield, Law

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