Juries and judges quotes

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◆ I always hear people say that only God can judge them, but I guess its because they have never been to court.

- Paballo Nhambiri100

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

- Henry Louis Mencken99

◆ The judge is forced for the most part to reach his audience through the medium of the press whose reporting of judicial decisions is all too often inaccurate and superficial.

- Irving R Kaufman99

◆ Judging is a lonely job in which a man is, as near as may be, an island entire.

- Abe Fortas99

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

- Robert Frost99

◆ Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws.

- Francis Bacon Sr99

◆ Whoever wants to be a judge of human nature should study people's excuses

- Hebbel99

◆ You will be judges of the fact. You are the sole and exclusive judges of what the truth is. You will bring with you here your common sense.

- Russell R Leggett99

◆ Take all the robes of all the good judges that have ever lived on the face of the earth, and they would not be large enough to cover the iniquity of one corrupt judge

- Henry Ward Beecher99

◆ We must remember that we have to make judges out of men, and that by being made judges their prejudices are not diminished and their intelligence is not increased

- Robert Green Ingersoll99

◆ Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it.

- Learned Hand99

◆ When the courts decide that murderers, rapists, and others who maliciously break our social contract deserve health care that most working Americans can't afford, they are condemning good people to death.

- Tammy Bruce99

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

- Thomas Jefferson99

◆ A jury is a group of twelve people of average ignorance

- Herbert Spence99

◆ The law is not the private property of lawyers, nor is justice the exclusive province of judges and juries. In the final analysis, true justice is not a matter of courts and law books, but of a commitment in each of us to liberty and mutual respect.

- Jimmy Carter99