Jury Quotes

A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer. (Robert Frost)
I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury. View quote
Groucho Marx
A fox should not be on the jury at a goose's trial. View quote
Thomas Fuller
The defendant wants to hide the truth because he's generally guilty. The defense attorney's job is to make sure the jury does not arrive at that truth. View quote
Alan Dershowitz
It is surely easier to confess a murder over a cup of coffee than in front of a jury. View quote
Friedrich Dürrenmatt
We have a criminal jury system which is superior to any in the world and its efficiency is only marred by the difficulty of finding twelve men every day who don't know anything and can't read. View quote
Mark Twain
It is impossible to obtain a conviction for sodomy from an English jury. Half of them don't believe that it can physically be done, and the other half are doing it. View quote
Winston Churchill
When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty. View quote
Norm Crosby
In fact, for all kinds of offenses - and, for no offenses - from murders to misdemeanors, men and women are put to death without judge or jury; so that, although the political excuse was no longer necessary, the wholesale murder of human beings went on just the same. View quote
Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Getting out of jury duty is easy. The trick is to say you're prejudiced against all races. View quote
Dan Castellaneta
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)
I lost court cases and misdemeanor juries, but of felony jury trials I was successful 105 of 106 times. View quote
Vincent Bugliosi
The facts will eventually test all our theories, and they form, after all, the only impartial jury to which we can appeal. View quote
Louis Agassiz
A jury is a group of twelve people of average ignorance. View quote
Herbert Spencer
Some people try to get out of jury duty by lying. You don't have to lie. Tell the judge the truth. Tell him you'd make a terrific juror because you can spot guilty people. View quote
George Carlin
I have many things to say. My every right, constitutional, civil, political and judicial has been tramped upon. I have not only had no jury of my peers, but I have had no jury at all. View quote
Susan B. Anthony
I got jury duty ... and I didn't want to go, so my friend said, "You should write something really really racist on the form when you return it. Like, you should put 'I hate chinks'." And I said, "I'm not going to put that on there just to get out of jury duty. I don't want people to think that about me." So instead I wrote, "I love chinks." View quote
Sarah Silverman
That doesn't make any sense. Sorry. There's no known way of saying an English sentence in which you begin a sentence with "in" and emphasize it. Get me a jury and show me how you can say "In July" and I'll go down on you. That's just idiotic, if you'll forgive me for saying so. It's just stupid... "In July"; I'd love to know how you emphasize "In" in "In July". Impossible! Meaningless! View quote
Orson Welles
The first thought that occurred to me, that night when I heard the chairman of the jury announce my name, was, Just think how many people hate me at this moment. Naturally, I wanted to annoy those people even further by being arrogant. View quote
John Banville
I've resisted pronouncing a sentence before guilt is found. I will have this old-fashioned notion that even with people like Osama, who is very likely to be found guilty, we should do our best not to, in positions of executive power, not to prejudge jury trials. View quote
Howard Dean
Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, exhibit number one is what the seraphs, the misinformed, simple, noble-winged seraphs, envied. Look at this tangle of thorns. (Vladimir Nabokov)
Jury - A group of 12 people, who, having lied to the judge about their health, hearing, and business engagements, have failed to fool him. View quote
H. L. Mencken
The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence. View quote
H. L. Mencken
To deny political equality is to rob the ostracised of all self-respect; of credit in the market place; of recompense in the world of work; of a voice among those who make and administer the law; a choice in the jury before whom they are tried, and in the judge who decides their punishment. View quote
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Had the jury convicted on proper instructions it would be the end of the matter. But juries are not bound by what seems inescapable logic to judges. View quote
Robert H. Jackson